{"id":77734,"date":"2018-04-11T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T03:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/environmental-group-plans-methane-tracking-satellite"},"modified":"2018-04-11T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T03:03:30","slug":"environmental-group-plans-methane-tracking-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/environmental-group-plans-methane-tracking-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Group Plans Methane-Tracking Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/environmental-group-plans-methane-tracking-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracking methane in the air is hard because it rises and spreads from the source. Measurements taken on the ground and from planes vary all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg says the satellite, called MethaneSAT, is the best thing yet for quantifying and tracking the gas: \u201cIt will be able to see where it\u2019s happening [and] how much, across the globe \u2014 not just the big sources, but all the sources collectively, and understand the scale of the problem. That\u2019s the kind of data we don\u2019t have anywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be about the size of a beer keg and is due for launch in three years. It\u2019s funded with money raised from wealthy philanthropists.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/04\/11\/601557548\/environmental-group-plans-methane-tracking-satellite\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/04\/11\/601557548...-satellite<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking methane in the air is hard because it rises and spreads from the source. Measurements taken on the ground and from planes vary all over the place. Hamburg says the satellite, called MethaneSAT, is the best thing yet for quantifying and tracking the gas: \u201cIt will be able to see where it\u2019s happening [and] [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}