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Spotting Invisible Gas Leaks
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
Momentick of Tel Aviv, Israel, applies proprietary image-processing algorithms to data from several Earth-imaging satellites, especially from the Landsat missions, which Goddard Space Flight Center manages for NASA, to spot otherwise invisible plumes of methane escaping from oil and gas operations.