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Podcast Episode 83: NASA’s Role in Climate Research

May 4, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Kate Calvin discusses the agency’s role in climate research.

Podcast Episode 71: Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment

October 20, 2021 // by INSIGHT Staff

Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment Principal Investigator Mike Hecht discusses the MOXIE technology demonstration that’s generating oxygen on the Red Planet.

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NASA’s OCO-2 satellite flies around the globe taking approximately 100,000 measurements of CO2 concentrations each day. This illustration depicts an OCO-2 data collection over the Los Angeles Basin. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

OCO-2 Explores El Nino Effects on CO2 Levels

November 2, 2017 // by APPEL News Staff

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) has enabled scientists to answer key questions about extreme weather events and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2 spacecraft is moved into a thermal vacuum chamber at Orbital Sciences Corporation's Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Gilbert, Ariz., for a series of environmental tests. The tests confirmed the integrity of the observatory's electrical connections and subjected the OCO-2 instrument and spacecraft to the extreme hot, cold and airless environment they will encounter once in orbit. The observatory's solar array panels were removed prior to the test.

This Month in NASA History: From OCO to OCO–2

February 24, 2014 // by APPEL News Staff

February marks the fifth anniversary of the first Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) launch.

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory is on the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Image credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin

Knowledge Brief — Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2: Unfinished Business

May 5, 2011 // by APPEL News Staff

May 10, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 3 OCO-2 demonstrates that there is a way to bounce back from failure and forge ahead with the mission.

This is an artist’s concept of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. The mission, scheduled to launch in early 2009, will be the first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the principal human-produced driver of climate change. It will provide the first global picture of the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide and the places where this important greenhouse gas is stored. Such information will improve global carbon cycle models as well as forecasts of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and of how our climate may change in the future. Image credit: NASA/JPL

Learning from Failure: OCO-2 Gets Underway

April 20, 2010 // by APPEL News Staff

April 26, 2010 Vol. 3, Issue 4 The Orbiting Carbon Observatory team is applying lessons learned in a unique way after getting a rare second chance to fly.