Drone to Detect Methane Over Gas Pipelines

From afar, methane can be difficult to detect. It’s colorless, toxic, and devastating to the environment, especially when it leaks from natural gas pipelines . Up close, it smells like farts, but by the time people can smell it , there may be a huge problem . It’s visible with infrared cameras , but researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs and the University of California, Merced have a better idea: […]

 

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