EMIT Identifying Methane Plumes Around the Globe

NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) detected a cluster of 12 methane plumes on Sept. 1, 2022, in an approximately 150-square-mile (400-square-kilometer) region of southern Uzbekistan. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas about 80 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide during the time methane spends in the atmosphere, which is typically about a decade. This an area no NASA airborne imaging spectrometers have covered.