{"id":462447,"date":"2018-04-11T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=afe7848d4d60187fabc6b89a4a039363"},"modified":"2018-04-11T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T23:30:11","slug":"environmental-group-plans-methane-tracking-satellite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=462447","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Group Plans Methane-Tracking Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/04\/11\/methanesat_wide-59ca38216faa2fc8a8557b1a113b181a3b4f1299.png?s=600' alt='A new satellite, called MethaneSAT,will track methane emissions from oil and gas fields, as well as agriculture and natural sources. It's due for launch in three years.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Scientists hope MethaneSAT will show where the potent greenhouse gas is coming from. Tracking methane in the air is difficult because it rises and spreads from the source.  <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Environmental Defense Fund)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=601557548' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists hope MethaneSAT will show where the potent greenhouse gas is coming from. Tracking methane in the air is difficult because it rises and spreads from the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1867,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462448,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462447\/revisions\/462448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}