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PIA23352: OCO-3's First CO2 Measurements
This image shows preliminary carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from OCO-3 over the United States.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Mission:  Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-3) 
 Spacecraft:  ISS
 Instrument:  OCO-3 
 Product Size:  1007 x 701 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23352.tif (1.255 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23352.jpg (99.61 kB)  

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This image shows CO2 over the United States during OCO-3's first few days of science data collection. These initial measurements are consistent with measurements taken by OCO-3's older sibling, OCO-2, over the same area — meaning that even though OCO-3's instrument calibration is not yet complete, it is right on track to continue its (currently still operational) predecessor's data record.

The mission team expects to complete OCO-3's in-orbit checkout phase — the period where they ensure all instruments and components are working and calibrated correctly — in August 2019. They are scheduled to release official CO2 and solar-induced fluorescence data to the science community a year later; however, this data will likely be available sooner given the quality of the measurements that OCO-3 is already making.

The OCO-3 Project is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information on OCO-3 can be found here: https://ocov3.jpl.nasa.gov/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-07-12