First Images Available from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Snowfall Satellite

First Images Available from NASA-JAXA Global Rain and Snowfall Satellite
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 26, 2014 - NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released the first images captured by their newest Earth-observing satellite, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, which launched into space Feb. 27. The images show precipitation falling inside a March 10 cyclone over the northwest Pacific Ocean, approximately 1,000 miles east of Japan. The data were colle ... more

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