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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission
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A sign guides travelers to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC), Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, Tanegashima Island, Japan. A launch of an H-IIA rocket carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is planned for Feb. 28, 2014 from the space center. 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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineGlobal Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission. NASA/HQ, 2014-02-22. Public domain. ID: 201402220007HQ.
