The article shows a graphic of what existing monitoring satellites can do compared to what these satellites will do. For comparison, NASA launched the Orbiting

The article shows a graphic of what existing monitoring satellites can do compared to what these satellites will do. For comparison, NASA launched the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 [1] in 2014, and it can monitor a swath 10km wide. This announcement is about Sentinel-7 [2], and it will monitor a swath 240km wide. This huge increase in monitoring will significantly improve what it can monitor (eg, montly/annual trends in CO2 production) edit: It will allow monitoring of all CO2 production sites every two or three days [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Carbon_Observatory_2 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_Programme#Sentinel_missions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_Programme#Sentinel_...