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In 1997 when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, was launched, its mission was scheduled to last just a few years. Now, 17 years later, the TRMM mission has come to an end. NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) stopped... Read More
Posted On: Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:38am
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Owen Kelley, research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, discusses the science, the technology and the researcher who coined the term "hot tower" 50 years ago. During the past decade, NASA's Tropical Rainfall... Read More
Posted On: Fri, 01/31/2014 - 4:17pm
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This video shows the launch of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite on November 27th, 1997 from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. TRMM was launched on JAXA's H-IIA rocket.
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Posted On: Mon, 08/26/2013 - 4:16pm
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Botswana's Okavango Delta and the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are two ends of a 360-mile round trip zebra migration, the second longest on Earth. In this animation, shades of red show dry areas, green represents vegetation, and the dots show GPS tracked... Read More
Posted On: Fri, 08/16/2013 - 4:30pm
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Alan Stahler of community radio KVMR in Nevada City, California interviews NASA Goddard's Owen Kelley about hurricane physics, how TRMM measures precipitation, and the TRMM overflight of Hurricane Sandy one day before landfall. The 38-minute-long... Read More
Posted On: Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:04pm
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When it rains it pours, goes the saying, and for the last 15 years, the data on tropical rainfall have poured in. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) was launched on Nov. 27, 1997, and for the last decade and a half has enabled... Read More
Posted On: Tue, 11/27/2012 - 10:44am
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The TRMM satellite passed almost directly above powerful typhoon MA-ON on 14 July 2011 at 0525 UTC. This TRMM orbit revealed that MA-ON was extremely well organized with several bands of intense thunderstorms around a well defined eye.
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Posted On: Fri, 07/15/2011 - 11:46am
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An overview of the water cycle, and an explanation of how TRMM can look inside clouds to understand Earth's water and Energy cycles.
Posted On: Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:13pm
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An explanation of how heat energy flows through our atmosphere, and how TRMM is used to measure warming within clouds.
Posted On: Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:10pm
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An explanation of El Nino and La Nina, and of how TRMM is used to study them.
Posted On: Wed, 04/13/2011 - 12:07pm
