{"id":59308,"date":"2025-08-13T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=59308"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:56:09","slug":"orbiting-carbon-observatories-oco-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/orbiting-carbon-observatories-oco-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) Program Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recently, the Trump administration asked to shut down NASA\u2019s Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) program.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>About Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">OCOs are a series of dedicated <strong>Earth remote sensing satellites<\/strong> that were designed specifically to observe atmospheric CO2 from space in order to better <strong>understand the characteristics of climate change.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Timeline of Observatories<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The first mission of the series failed soon after launch in February 2009.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">A replacement <strong>satellite, OCO-2,<\/strong> was launched in July 2014. It was built based on the original OCO mission to minimise cost, schedule, and performance impacts.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>In 2019, a third mission, OCO-3<\/strong>, was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to further enhance the observation of atmospheric CO2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Importance of Orbiting Carbon Observatories<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">NASA and other agencies have used the <strong>data to create high-resolution maps of plant growth<\/strong> around the world.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">That\u2019s useful to farmers, useful to r<strong>angeland and grazing and drought monitoring<\/strong> and forest mapping and all kinds of things, in addition to the CO2 measurements.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The data have been used by the US<strong> Department of Agriculture and many private agricultural<\/strong> consulting companies to forecast and track crop yields and drought conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/trump-administration-nasa-carbon-monitoring-shutdown-10174620\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) are a series of dedicated Earth remote sensing satellites that were designed specifically to observe atmospheric CO2 from space. Read more about Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO) Program, Aim, Importance, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":59293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2172,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-59308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-orbiting-carbon-observatories-program","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}