Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued over 9 years ago
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The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is the first NASA mission designed to collect space-based measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the precision, resolution, and coverage needed to characterize the processes controlling its buildup in the atmosphere. The OCO-2 project uses the LEOStar-2 spacecraft that carries a single instrument. It incorporates three high-resolution spectrometers that make coincident measurements of reflected sunlight in the near-infrared CO2 near 1.61 and 2.06 μm and in molecular oxygen (O2) A-Band at 0.76 μm . Each band has 1016 spectral elements. This product contains pointing angles of the spacecraft for each orbit. It is generated using the following input data: + APID 20 telemetry + Orbit Boundary File It is essential in generating the Geolocations of the science data.