Space Daily via SPX: Astrium, Europe's leading space
company, will be pushing ahead with the preparation of CarbonSat, a new climate
satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), over the next 22 months. In
early April 2012, ESA announced its decision to award Astrium a contract to
define the CarbonSat satellite.
Under Astrium's lead, an international team of engineers
will move forward consolidating the various components that make up the
CarbonSat satellite.
CarbonSat will measure the global concentration and
distribution of the two most important greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide (CO2)
and methane (CH4) - with unprecedented accuracy, providing climate scientists
with essential data for climate analysis and for refining climate simulation
computer models.
Carbon dioxide and methane are the two main greenhouse gases
causing global climate change. Comprehensive knowledge of the sources and
global distribution of these gases is a pre-requisite for predicting the
Earth's climate.
CarbonSat will provide measurement data with a spatial
resolution better than 2x2km. For the first time, this should enable scientists
to quantify localized sources of CO2 such as coal-fired power plants and
emissions from cities as well as geological sources such as volcanoes....
Image of CarbonSat from Astrium's website
1 comment:
carbon dioxide gas is a gas which is converts to Liquid under pressure at Room Temperature. It is a good solvent. Because of which it is widely used in industries such as Beverages, Food, Fire extinguisher, Lasers, Oil recovery, as refrigerants and Pharmaceutical and other chemical processing. Carbon dioxide is widely used as mixture with Argon for welding and as an ingredient in the production of urea, carbonates and bicarbonates, and sodium salicylic. This has necessitated measurement of carbon dioxide at various stages of production, transportation and end use.
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