VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- On Launch Complex 576-E here, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory is scheduled for launch aboard the Taurus rocket Feb. 24 from Vandenberg. The spacecraft will collect precise global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere. For more on this story, click here. ( Air Force photos/Senior Airman Cole M. Presley)

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