Illustration of OCO-3 on the space station collecting data in snapshot mode over the Los Angeles Basin.
Illustration of OCO-3 on the space station collecting data in snapshot mode over the Los Angeles Basin. As the space station approaches the Southern California coastline, OCO-3 is already starting its third parallel data swath of a total of five. The complete “snapshot” will provide dense carbon dioxide data over an area of about 250 square miles (650 square kilometers) — the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech