Out of Gas

(Fox News) - A $280 million NASA project to study global warming gases from space has failed. A satellite launched [yesterday] from California crashed into the sea near Antarctica after a malfunction kept it from achieving orbit. This was NASA's first satellite dedicated to monitoring carbon dioxide emissions on a global scale.

The project took almost a decade to plan and was supposed to last two years. A NASA spokesman says an exact cause of the failure has not been determined.