{"id":21288,"date":"2024-03-06T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T06:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21288"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T05:38:28","slug":"methanesat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/methanesat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is MethaneSAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About MethaneSAT<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will track and measure\u00a0methane emissions at a global scale.<\/li>\n<li>It will provide more details and have a much wider field of view than any of its predecessors.<\/li>\n<li>The entity behind MethaneSAT is the\u00a0Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) \u2014 a US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group.<\/li>\n<li>It is developed in collaboration with Harvard University, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and the New Zealand Space Agency.<\/li>\n<li>It will\u00a0orbit the Earth 15 times a day, monitoring the oil and gas sector.<\/li>\n<li>It will create a large amount of data, which will tell \u201chow much methane is coming from where, who\u2019s responsible, and are those emissions going up or down over time\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>The data collected by this will be\u00a0made public for free in near real-time. This will allow stakeholders and regulators to take action to reduce methane emissions.<\/li>\n<li>Features\n<ul>\n<li>t is equipped with a high-resolution infrared\u00a0sensor and a spectrometer.<\/li>\n<li>It can track differences in methane concentrations as small as three parts per billion in the atmosphere, which enables it to pick up smaller emissions sources than the previous satellites.<\/li>\n<li>It also has a wide-camera view \u2014 of\u00a0about 200 km by 200 km \u2014 allowing it to identify larger emitters so-called \u201csuper emitters\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The collected data will be\u00a0analysed using cloud-computing and AI technology developed by Google \u2014 the\u00a0company is a mission partner \u2014 and the data will be made public through Google\u2019s Earth Engine platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is cloud computing?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the delivery of computing services\u2014including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence\u2014over the internet (\u201cthe cloud\u201d) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-climate\/methanesat-satellite-methane-emmissions-9197297\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Meet MethaneSAT, a satellite which will \u2018name and shame\u2019 methane emitters<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MethaneSAT will track and measure methane emissions at a global scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}