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Google's street view cars around the world went to the trouble of shooting street view images for us, let us have the opportunity to "see" the place where we can spend a lifetime can never, we are sincerely grateful for it, taking Street photographs are not all its tasks, however, this little "Angels" can also detect whether surrounding areas has methane leaks.

Google Earth Outreach Team and United States Environmental Protection Association in July this year, three on the street view cars were equipped with a methane detector, and sent them to Boston, Staten Island, New York and Indianapolis. The month-long experiment brought some results, as shown in the following figure you did, they most likely some old, leaking pipelines marked out, but which is not necessarily imminent threats, now Google, United States Environmental Protection Association was working with local authorities to investigate and fix.

Google in the next few months could lead to more street view cars equipped with methane detectors and sent to more cities. （via：EDF）