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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (HMI) H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard is during roll out at the Tanegashima Space Center, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. 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.

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Credit lineGlobal Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001186.

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