Japan Launches Rocket to Monitor Greenhouse Gas. By Eric Talmadge, AP, January 23, 2009. "The first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide emissions was launched into space Friday from... Ibuki, which will circle the globe every 100 minutes, will store information on greenhouse gas levels around the globe for the next five years. The data will be shared with NASA in the United States and other space and scientific organizations. Meanwhile, the U.S. space agency will launch a similar satellite in one month that will map the global distribution of carbon dioxide. Officials said the Ibuki satellite mission was the first of its kind. It is equipped with optical sensors that measure reflected light from the Earth and check the density of carbon dioxide and methane."
2009-01-24
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