The 2008 Orbiting Carbon Observatory and its 2014 replacement cost hundreds of millions of dollars to put in space and the data recorded is of such "exceptional" quality that farmers use it to track their fields, optimize yields and predict droughts. They were built, all the same, to monitor greenh…
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