They locate the main ‘hidden’ methane hotspots, the fastest-heating gas on the planet

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They locate the main ‘hidden’ methane hotspots, the fastest-heating gas on the planet

The data provided by the Sentinel-5P mission of the European Copernicus programme have made it possible to locate the main places on the planet where natural or human sources emit methane continuously and "persistently", not always easy to locate because they are sometimes smaller volumes than those already known and detected.Methane has a greater global warming capacity than CO2 in the medium term, which is the period of time when humanity is t…