NASA Goddard releases Carbon Dioxide visualization

The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center has released its latest visualization of Carbon Dioxide from 2002 through 2009. The data is collected from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on the NASA Aqua spacecraft. The data is compared to the data collected at the Mauna Loa, Hawaii observatory.

Interestingly enough, the Earth Observatory image of the day shows the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Since the Mauna Loa Observatory sits on a volcano that is continuously releasing carbon dioxide, how can they take accurate measurements? Click the link to find out.

via : Aqua/AIRS Carbon Dioxide from 2002 through 2009 with Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Graph

This story written by Paul Adams

Paul Adams leads an award-winning, diverse contractor team that runs a federal high performance computing facility where he has worked for 17 years. He loves getting his hands on the latest visualization and computer hardware, astronomy, aerospace engineering, working with the poor, and ringing cowbells.