<p>You may find managing your garden from space a bit sci-fi but this is what NASA is planning to do to protect our earth.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The US space agency is planning to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite next month that will keep a tab on your lawns and gardens to create a global map of carbon sources and carbon sinks.<br /><br />The job of the satellite is to provide the most detailed map of photosynthetic fluorescence ever created.<br /><br />Using this data, scientists should be able to estimate how quickly the world's plants are absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, NASA said in a statement.<br /><br />During photosynthesis, a plant absorbs light, then re-emits it at a different wavelength. This is known as fluorescence.<br /><br />A satellite could detect the light emitted by the world's plants to estimate how much carbon the plants are absorbing.<br /><br />A detailed map of photosynthetic activity and carbon absorption will better inform conservation efforts, the report added.<br /></p>
<p>You may find managing your garden from space a bit sci-fi but this is what NASA is planning to do to protect our earth.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The US space agency is planning to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite next month that will keep a tab on your lawns and gardens to create a global map of carbon sources and carbon sinks.<br /><br />The job of the satellite is to provide the most detailed map of photosynthetic fluorescence ever created.<br /><br />Using this data, scientists should be able to estimate how quickly the world's plants are absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, NASA said in a statement.<br /><br />During photosynthesis, a plant absorbs light, then re-emits it at a different wavelength. This is known as fluorescence.<br /><br />A satellite could detect the light emitted by the world's plants to estimate how much carbon the plants are absorbing.<br /><br />A detailed map of photosynthetic activity and carbon absorption will better inform conservation efforts, the report added.<br /></p>