NASA is flying an airborne science laboratory through Canadian snowstorms for six weeks in support of a difficult task of the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission: measuring snowfall from space. GPM is an international satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2014 that will provide next-generation observations of worldwide rain and snow every three hours. It is the first precipitation mission designed to detect falling snow from space.
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GSFC_20120110_GPM_m10890_GCPEx
Date Created
January 10, 2012
Center
GSFC
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video
Photographer
Robert Andreoli
Location
Goddard Space Flight Center
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