NASA Field Testing NASA's New Carbon-Dioxide Measuring Instrument

A team of NASA scientists and engineers is poised to realize a lifetime goal: building an instrument powerful and accurate enough to gather around-the-clock global atmospheric carbon-dioxide (CO2) measurements from space. Developers of the CO2 Sounder Lidar instrument snapped this photo during a field campaign over California and Nevada. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/field-testing-nasas-new-carbon-dioxide-measuring-instrument