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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission
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Launch pad 1 is seen at the Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014 in Tanegashima, Japan. A Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory is planned for launch from pad 1 on Feb. 28, 2014. Once launched, the 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, 2014-02-24. Public domain. ID: 201402240004HQ.
