Watching the planet breathe
Friday, March 2, 2012 - 09:01
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earths plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers working at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and in Germany and Japan report on how measurements taken from space can open a whole new window onto the planets carbon cycle.