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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission

NASA / HQ · 2014-02-23 · photograph (digital archive)

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Minamitane elementary school girls pose for a photo in front of a sign featuring the town's mascot "Chuta-kun", Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, Tanegashima Island, Japan. The Chuta-kun mascot rides a rocket and has guns on the side of his helmet to show the areas history as the site of the first known contact of Europe and the Japanese, in 1543 and the introduction of the gun.

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Credit lineGlobal Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission. NASA/HQ, 2014-02-23. Public domain. ID: 201402230013HQ.
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