VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Michael Freilich, left, director of the Earth Science Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden answer questions from news media representatives at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during activities leading up to the launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2.Final preparations for launch of OCO-2 at 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket are underway on the pad. OCO-2 is NASAs first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earths climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Michael Freilich, left, director of the Earth Science Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden answer questions from news media representatives at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California during activities leading up to the launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2.Final preparations for launch of OCO-2 at 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1 aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket are underway on the pad. OCO-2 is NASAs first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earths climate. OCO-2 will provide a new tool for understanding the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide emissions and the natural "sinks" that absorb carbon dioxide and help control its buildup. The observatory will measure the global geographic distribution of these sources and sinks and study their changes over time.
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