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This image was created by mixing the 16 bands monitored by the GOES-18 weather satellite to encode land masses, oceans and atmospheric features as different colours.

The agencies announced this week that they will soon launch GOES-U, the last in their series of four advanced weather satellites, which provide continuous monitoring of much of the Western Hemisphere.

Four of its instruments are on the aging Aqua and Terra satellites, which have only a few years of life left; the fifth is on a weather satellite likely to expire this decade.

The model also estimates CH4 leakages based on detections of gas flaring by U.S. weather satellites and direct CH4 emissions spotted by instruments mounted on planes and the International Space Station.

The images are combined with feeds from government weather satellites that scan for hotspots, along with other data sources, such as social media posts.