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Global Precipitation Measurement satellite

by

Nasa/JPL/Novapix

Reference

e-sot02-80101

Date

2016-09-01

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.