Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they will next year start an in-depth campaign to monitor the amounts of methane that appear to be missing from Earth's atmosphere. At the forefront of this investigation will be the Tropospheric Ozone Monitoring Instrument (Tropomi) aboard the ESA Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite, which is currently scheduled for launch in 2015. The mission, valued at around €45 million ($62 million), will seek to determine if the la...
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