October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...TROPOMI will measure total atmospheric column concentrations of methane, the second most potent man-made greenhouse...mask of optically thin clouds to improve the retrieval of the methane product from TROPOMI. In December 2011, ESA selected Airbus ...
June 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... time. Whereas MAVEN will study Mars' upper atmosphere, MOM carries different instruments, include a sensor to detect methane, a chemical that could mark the presence of microbial life. Aside from science, a major factor in the Asian...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) was launched in 2009 as the world’s first satellite to monitor CO2 and methane (CH4) levels. The satellite was named Ibuki, meaning “breath” in Japanese. The satellite was developed jointly...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... NASA Curiosity rover such as habitable environments on Mars, large lakes in the distant past, and sporadic releases of methane have greatly increased the chance of finding evidence that life in the form of micro-organisms might have...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...; and CarbonSat2—a proposed 3 to 5 year mission—that will measure global atmospheric amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4 ) with high spatial resolution and coverage1, which can be used to improve existing atmospheric computer models...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... crew. Teleoperations and telepresence are used to interact with rocket-propelled airplanes that target the source methane emissions on Mars, rovers on the surface and the robotic Mars Ascent Vehicles that bring samples up to Phobos...
