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NASA Cold Weather Airborne Campaign to Measure Falling Snow
Description: Beginning Jan. 17, NASA will fly an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring snowfall from space. GPM is an international satellite mission that will set a new standard for precipitation measurements from space, providing next-generation observations of worldwide rain and snow every three hours. [Source: NASA News]
URL: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/jan/HQ_12-016_GPM_Flights_Maine.html
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Source: NASA News
Publish Date: 1/12/2012
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