CLIMATE - A World of Water, Seen From Space

Space agencies across the planet launch the most ambitious plan yet to understand how the world’s water works.The GPM Core satellite launches from Japan on Thursday, February 27. Bill Ingalls/NASA.Late last week, from a launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, a rocket shot toward space. Nestled inside it was an amalgam of solar arrays and communications equipment and propulsion instruments, all of them cobbled together in th ...

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