Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) introduced MAPL-EMIT on September 9, 2026, a deep-learning model that detects, quantifies, and localizes methane plumes globally from NASA’s EMIT satellite instrument, according to Google’s announcement. Google said the model, trained on 3.6 million physics-simulated methane plumes, detects 50% more plumes than human experts and identifies more than 23,000 additional plumes globally, including plumes at 24 of the world’s 25 largest-emitting…