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For Further InformationJAXA's IBUKI GW tracks carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen dioxide while also measuring the water cycle.
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JAXA with Japan's Ministry of the Environment and the National Institute for Environmental Studies.
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A satellite carrying TANSO-3 for greenhouse gases and AMSR3 for the water cycle.
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Earth The curved path an object takes as it travels around a planet, moon or star, like a satellite circling Earth. Glossary, observing the whole globe.
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JAXA's IBUKI GW launched on June 29, 2025 on H-IIA No. 50. Its TANSO-3 instrument measures the greenhouse gases A gas that people and animals breathe out and that burning fuel releases. Plants take it in, and too much of it in the air warms the planet. Glossary and A greenhouse gas that traps much more heat than carbon dioxide over a few decades. It leaks from oil and gas sites, landfills and farms. Glossary, plus nitrogen dioxide, while AMSR3 observes the water cycle, putting greenhouse-gas and water-cycle monitoring on one satellite.
Source: JAXA, IBUKI GW (GOSAT-GW) status
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"GOSAT-GW "IBUKI GW" (JAXA)." Saving Planets, https://www.savingplanets.com/GOSAT-GW.html.
