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Global Precipitation Measurement satellite

author: Nasa/JPL/Novapix

reference: e-sot02-80101

Image Size 300 DPI: 25 * 19 cm

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the GPM Core Observatory satellite on February 27th, 2014, carrying advanced instruments that set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space.

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2014 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - EARTH FROM SPACE - EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE - GPM - ILLUSTRATION - LIMB - METEOROLOGY - RAIN - SNOW - SPACE -