Showing posts with label WORLDWIDE PRECIPITATION. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WORLDWIDE PRECIPITATION. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

LAUNCH PADS ON TANEGASHIMA ISLAND, JAPAN WAITS TO SEND UP GPM CORE OBSERVATORY

FROM:  NASA 

The launch pads at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island, Japan are seen on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, a week ahead of the planned launch of an H-IIA rocket carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory. GPM is an international mission led by NASA and JAXA to measure rain and snowfall over most of the globe multiple times a day. To get that worldwide view of precipitation, multiple satellites will be contributing observations for a global data set, all unified by the advanced measurements of GPM's Core Observatory, built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Launch of the GPM Core Observatory from Tanegashima Space Center is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27 during a window beginning at 1:07 p.m. EST (3:07 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 28 Japan time). Image Credit- NASA-Bill Ingalls

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