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Description	English: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2, satellite sits atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket prior to encapsulation in its payload fairing at Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch is scheduled for 2:56 a.m. PDT 5:56 a.m. EDT on July 1. OCO-2 is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth’s 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.
Date	20 June 2014
Source	https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-2014-3014 http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=69541 on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/images/large/2014-3014.jpg on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine
Author	NASA/Mark Mackley

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