March 5, 2024 Written by Alind Chauhan , The Indian Express, New Delhi Methane is the second largest contributor to global warming, after carbon dioxide. MethaneSAT will identify how much methane is coming from where, who’s responsible, and are those emissions going up or down over time. MethanSAT model. (Source: MethaneSAT) MethaneSAT — a satellite which will track and measure methane emissions at a global scale — was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket from California on Monday (March 4). While the washing-machine-sized satellite is not the first spacecraft to identify and quantify methane emissions, it will provide more details and have a much wider field of view than any of its predecessors. Here is all you need to know about MethaneSAT. But first, why do we need to track and measure methane emissions? Methane is an invisible but strong greenhouse gas, and the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide, responsible for 30 per cent of global
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