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== '''Here's looking at us''' ==

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==='''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EarthPOV#Venturing_Above Venturing Above]'''===

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'''''Watch magnificent time-lapse Earth views -- What a view !'''''

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night'''''] - '''''Settings Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up, lean back and fly'''''  

[https://vimeo.com/80588358 '''''The View Outside My Window'''''-Vimeo] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAEIMx39-w '''''The View'''''-YouTube] - '''''FULL 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, go 'Original' for 2160p - HD 4K'''''

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[http://bit.ly/1qiNmKu '''Interactive Map from the POV of the ISS -- Where are you on our Blue Planet?''']

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'''''With appreciation of the [http://vimeo.com/55073825 Overview Effect]... Earth Point of View with wondrous realization...'''''

[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''', the Movie] -- [http://vimeo.com/60234866 Planetary] 

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'''''Astronaut Alex Gerst on the #ISS [http://blogs.esa.int/alexander-gerst/ Live Reports / Blog -- October 2014]'''''

[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg '''''GreenPolicy360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..."]  

[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''Seeing how thin our atmosphere is'''''] [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/auTPaQHTmhb] [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/4Cp2QAKR1qK] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth '''''Atmosphere - Wiki'''''] [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''Earth's atmosphere - #EnvironmentalSecurity''''']

'''''"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space."''''' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/ISS_040e008179_earth%27s_atmosphere_l.jpg]

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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Thin_atmosphere_AstroGerst_ISS_2014.jpg '''''Astronaut Gerst on the thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it...''''']

''#Earth360 Fact: We are just beginning to geo-monitor our thin atmosphere, earth resources, systems and biosphere from space...'' 

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'''''Watching the Earth Breathe from Space''''' [http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/] [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-198] [http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/] [http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/18/climate-change-nasa-app/] 

'''''August 2014'''''

'''''1st light! OCO-2 announces their data!''''' 

The newly launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory is now at the front of the international “Afternoon Constellation,” the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/The_A-Train.jpg “A-Train”] of Earth-observing satellites in orbit. Their [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/The_A-Train_synched.jpg synchronized collection] of data is a first and advances #earthmonitoring with a qualitative, quantum leap. Go we go!! [http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/oco2/a-train-atmosphere-20140703/index.html#.U7qp9JH8cjw Orbiting Carbon Observatory] And while the A Train rolls on in the sky, maybe you'd like to listen to old but always good [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY Duke Ellington's A Train ;-)]

The image [spectra image below] shows some of the first data taken by '''OCO-2''' as it flew over Papua-New Guinea forests on August 6, 2014. Each plot shows three different spectra, or wavelength, observed by the satellite’s spectrometers: ''760 nanometers (atmospheric oxygen), 1610 nanometers (carbon dioxide), and 2060 nanometers (carbon dioxide)''. 

As '''OCO-2''' flies over Earth’s sunlit hemisphere, each spectrometer collects a ''frame three times per second'' (a total of about 9,000 frames from each orbit). Each frame is divided into ''eight spectra'' that record the amount of molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide over adjacent ground footprints, each of which is about 2.25 kilometers (1.39 miles) long and a few hundred meters wide. When displayed as an image, ''the spectra appear like bar codes''. The dark lines indicate absorption by molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide.

“The initial data from '''OCO-2''' appear exactly as expected; the spectra lines are well resolved, sharp, and deep,” says '''OCO-2''' chief architect Randy Pollock of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 

“We still have a lot of work to do to go from having a working instrument to having a well-calibrated and scientifically useful instrument, but this was an amazingly important milestone.”


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To put the spectra in context, the natural-color image here shows the cloudy, forested scene below OCO-2 just minutes after it collected its data. 

The color image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite in the A Train orbit.


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'''Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2''' The historic launch [http://www.space.com/26403-nasa-oco2-carbon-dioxide-satellite-launch.html #planetcitizen mission to study #earthsatmosphere] [http://www.universetoday.com/113866/nasas-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-gas-observatory-captures-first-light-at-head-of-international-a-train-of-earth-science-satellites/] [http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/20140815-oco-2-first-light-spectra.html] 

'''OCO-2''' tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/m/news/news.php?release=2014-272#.U-9Aa2Nab8l OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'] 

What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 #Earth360 [http://phys.org/news/2014-08-oco-.html]

Looking closer at [http://space.io9.com/nasas-new-satellite-could-unravel-the-mystery-of-our-ch-1598348848/1598704971/+AnnaleeNewitz OCO-2] 

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Beginning with first 'whole earth' images of our home planet, taken in the Apollo era... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_Apollo_4.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg]

We are now flying eyes-in-the-sky, earth-monitoring producing first-generation data and #sustainability realizations... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites]

[http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow '''NASA's Earth Right Now'''] transitioning from military to environmental security... NASA establishing itself "as a world leader in Earth science and climate studies..."
 
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