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Methane SAT

A Pioneering New Technology

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  • Avik Choudhury Lake Washington High School

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58445/rars.1428

Keywords:

Methane, Tracking, Technology

Abstract

In February 2024, Google partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund to create a new satellite that tracks methane emissions in a groundbreaking way (Maguire, 2024). The new satellite, called MethaneSAT, will track methane with unprecedented precision and would revolutionize methane tracking in the future.

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