The United States Space Agency NASA will place in orbit a satellite baptized as Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) that will detail the carbon dioxide concentration near the surface next 23rd February. OCO will detail the concentration of carbon dioxide close to the ground where its warming effect is most keenly felt. The satellite will allow knowing the points the Earth surface where it is being emitted and absorbing the gas and it will help the scientists to improve his understanding on the paper of the drains.

"This is NASA’s first spacecraft specifically dedicated to mapping carbon dioxide," the investigator David Crisp told BBC News.
"The objective of the OCO mission is to make measurements that are so precise that they can be used to look for surface 'sources' and 'sinks' of CO2”, added the scientist who presented the details of the mission in the American Geophysical Union Conference  recently celebrated in San Francisco.

The observatory’s global maps of CO2 concentration will help the mission team to find out where the gas is entering the atmosphere and where it is being absorbed by land plants and the oceans.

Scientists have calculated that nature cycles about 330 billion tonnes of carbon every year, and because of that, also Japan is prepared to as well place in orbit its own satellite "CO2 Hunter" this same year, whereas Europe is analyzing the launching of two observatories: A-SCOPE (Space Observation Carbon Outpost of the Planet Earth) and a mission called BIOMASS, that could be launched in 2016.

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