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Image above: Adrift in the central Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal, the Azores Islands appeared poised to take a nearly direct hit from Hurricane Gordon on September 19, 2006.
Image credit: NASA/Jesse Allen
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Aqua Mission
Aqua is a major international Earth Science satellite mission centered at NASA. Launched on May 4, 2002, the satellite has six different Earth-observing instruments on board and is named for the large amount of information being obtained about water in the Earth system from its stream of approximately 89 Gigabytes of data a day. The water variables being measured include almost all elements of the water cycle and involve water in its liquid, solid, and vapor forms. Additional variables being measured include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures.
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| | 12.14.06 - NASA Tropical Ozone Studies Yield Surprises
Two new NASA-funded studies of ozone in the tropics using NASA satellite data not previously available are giving scientists a fuller understanding of the processes driving ozone chemistry and its impacts on pollution and climate change.
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| | 09.01.06 - Hurricane Season 2006: Ernesto (Atlantic)
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| | 08.28.06 - NASA Looks Back at Katrina One Year Later
The 2005 hurricane season will long be remembered both for the record-breaking number of storms and a devastating hurricane named Katrina.
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| | 08.23.06 - Hurricane Season 2006: Ioke (Western Pacific)
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| | 08.07.06 - Hurricane Season 2006: Saomai (Western Pacific)
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Instrument Sensing Animation
Instrument Sensing Animation
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Aqua Deploys its Solar Array
Shortly after achieving orbit, Aqua deployed its solar array.
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| | Aqua Project Science
Learn more about NASA's Aqua mission to collect data on the Earth's water cycle.
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NASA's Earth Observing System Project Science Office
The Aqua mission is a part of the NASA-centered international Earth Observing System. (EOS)
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Aqua Spacecraft Instruments
View the six instruments on board the Aqua spacecraft.
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