What NASA’s OCO Satellite would have looked like had it reached orbit. Image: NASA Sad Day for Climate Science Knowledge is power. The more we know about a problem, the better we can act to solve it. That’s why today is a sad day. From the Times Online: “The centrepiece of Nasa’s $280 million climate-change mission crashed into the

sea near Antarctica today, delivering a heavy blow to the agency’s attempts to chart global warming.” The launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:55 am was successful (you can see a video below), but obviously something went terribly wrong……

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NASA’s First CO2-Monitoring Satellite Crashes Into the Sea