Carbon Purging

The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite or GOSAT, also known as Ibuki (いぶき, meaning "breath" in Japanese), is an Earth observation satellite and the world's first satellite dedicated to greenhouse-gas-monitoring, which will be used to measure densities of carbon dioxide and methane from 56,000 locations on the Earth's atmosphere. The GOSAT was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and launched on January 23, 2009, from the Tanegashima Space Center. Japan's Ministry of the Environment, and National Institute for Environmental Studies will use the data to track one of the gases causing the greenhouse effect, and the data will be shared with NASA and other space and scientific organizations in other countries.