Video: Monitoring methane from space

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</div> </div> </div> <h1 class="text-extra-large line-low mb-2">Video: Monitoring methane from space</h1> <p class="article-byline text-low"> by <a class="article-byline__link" href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html" target="_blank">European Space Agency</a> </p> <div class="mt-4 article-main"> <div class="article-gallery lightGallery"> <div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/space.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2023/space.jpg" data-sub-html="Credit: Pixabay from Pexels"> <figure class="article-img"> <img src="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/space.jpg" alt="space" title="Credit: Pixabay from Pexels" width="800" height="530"> <figcaption class="text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3"> Credit: Pixabay from Pexels </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div><p>Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. Curbing methane emissions could deliver immediate and long-lasting benefits for the climate, seeing as the gas only lingers in the atmosphere for a relatively short time.</p> <div class="ads d-print-none text-center mb-4 w-100">  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'> <script type='text/javascript'> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); }); </script> </div> </div> <p>Satellites have a really important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Tropomi instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is the only instrument that maps global methane concentrations every single day.</p> <p>This lets scientists detect hotspots for large methane sources around the world鈥攁llowing us to address the consequences of <a href="https://phys.org/tags/methane+emissions/" rel="tag" class="textTag">methane emissions</a> on our climate and environment.</p> <figure class="mb-4" itemscope itemtype ="http://schema.org/VideoObject"> <meta itemprop="name" content="Video: Monitoring methane from space" /> <meta itemprop="url" content="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2023/video-monitoring-metha.mp4" /> <meta itemprop="description" content="Credit: European Space Agency" /> <meta itemprop="uploadDate" content="2023-11-13T09:20:20-05:00" /> <meta itemprop="thumbnailUrl" content="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/gfx/video_tmb/2023/video-monitoring-metha.mp4.jpg" /> <meta itemprop="contentUrl" content="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2023/video-monitoring-metha.mp4"> <video class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9" id="jwVID76517" controls poster="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/gfx/video_tmb/2023/video-monitoring-metha.mp4.jpg"> <source src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2023/video-monitoring-metha.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> <figcaption class="text-darken text-low-up mt-4" itemprop="caption">Credit: European Space Agency</figcaption> </figure><p></p> <div class="d-inline-block text-medium mt-4"> <p> Provided by <a href="https://phys.org/partners/european-space-agency/">European Space Agency</a> <a class="icon_open" href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> <svg> <use href="https://phys.b-cdn.net/tmpl/v6/img/svg/sprite.svg#icon_open" x="0" y="0"/> </svg> </a> </p> </div>  <div class="d-none d-print-block"> <div class="mb-4"> <strong>Citation</strong>: Video: Monitoring methane from space (2023, November 14) retrieved 17 February 2025 from https://phys.org/news/2023-11-video-methane-space.html </div> <div class="border text-muted p-3"> This document is subject to copyright. 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