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TRMM Image Gallery
Around midnight on August 8, 2010, a violent surge of loosened earth roared down mountain slopes and slammed into quietly sleeping neighborhoods in Zhouqu County in Gansu, China.
Visualization of the TRMM satellite in space over a tropical cyclone.
TRMM Satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Yasi on February 1st to 3rd, 2011 (left to right) as it made landfall over Queensland, Australia.
TRMM Precipitation Radar image of tropical cyclone Magda.
A time-radius and time-azimuthal distribution of rainfall near Hurricane Katrina.
Diagram of the TRMM satellite and instruments.
Diagram of the TRMM instrument's measurment path.
The TRMM satellite being assembled at Goddard Space Flight Center.