Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center episode 216,

The Breath of the Earth.

I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be a host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

The International Space Station allows us a great vantage point to look down at our home planet. A few episodes ago we talked about the

eco-stress experiment with Dr. Carey Cause Nicholson, which is looking at the temperature of the

earth in plants, urban areas, and more.

She also brought up how data from other experiments feeds into our overall understanding of Earth

science and mention one that is measuring carbon dioxide. Enter the orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 or OCO3, which is doing just

that on a daily basis. It launched in 2019 and continues gathering data on atmospheric carbon from the OCO2 experiment that began in July 2014 in a polar orbit and is still there collecting data today.

OCO3 provides data from the space station's orbit

which is 52 degrees north and 52 degrees south latitudes. On this episode we

get the scoop on what this is and why it's important to help the planet

from Project

scientist Dr. Anne-Marie Eldering at NASA's Jet Propulsion

Laboratory in California. So let's explore an experiment on the

space station that's watching the earth breathe. Enjoy. T-minus by second, then county.

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