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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission
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The launch pads at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center are seen a week ahead of the planned launch of an H-IIA rocket carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, Tanegashima Island, Japan. The NASA-JAXA GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineGlobal Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission. NASA/HQ, 2014-02-21. Public domain. ID: 201402210001HQ.