Global Precipitation Measurement launch. View of a Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipita
Global Precipitation Measurement launch. View of a Japanese H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, as it rolls out to launch pad 1 of the Tanegashima Space Centre, 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. Photographed on Tanegashima Island, Japan, on 27th February 2014.
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