GPM Satellite To Usher In a New Era of Weather Observation

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 31, 2014 @07:43AM from the more-climate-data-to-argue-about dept.

Zothecula writes: "A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior of storm systems is set to launch. The Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory has been in development since 2005 and is a collaboration project between NASA and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). The satellite is due to be launched on the Japanese manufactured H-IIA delivery vehicle from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Tanegashima Island, Japan, on February 27."

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Progress by TWX · 2014-01-31 07:49 · Score: 3, Funny

I guess that we've come a long way from the weather rock...

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Weather? by Kenja · 2014-01-31 07:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Living on the west coast, I just assumed we had gotten rid of that stuff.

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