Who's making methane?

 

Well, it turns out that EMIT (a NASA mission) can find emitters.

Methane emitters, that is.

EMIT is an instrument on the Space Station, ostensibly deployed there to measure mineral dust characteristics in the atmosphere and how the dust might cool or warm up the atmosphere.  

But it also turns out that EMIT is a really good detector of methane.  And that means that the big methane emitters can be found, defined, and potentially mitigated.

"In a span of four months, NASA identified “more than 50 methane ‘super-emitters’ in Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Southwestern United States” using an imaging spectrometer aboard the International Space Station."

 But there are different kinds of dust, too.