A Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite launches from the Tanegashima Space Center February 28, 2014 in Tanegashima, Japan. 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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A Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency H-IIA rocket carrying the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite launches from the Tanegashima Space Center February 28, 2014 in Tanegashima, Japan. 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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