Seeing Precipitation From Space
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- Written by:
- Ellen T. Gray
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- Scientific consulting by:
- Chris Kidd,
- Dalia B Kirschbaum, and
- Gail Skofronick Jackson
- View full credits
An extratropical cyclone spun across the North Pacific near Japan on March 10, 2014. The cyclone became the first storm imaged by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, launched eleven days earlier. The two instruments aboard the satellite are tuned in to different types of precipitation—rain, snow, and any mixture of the two, letting scientists see exactly where each is falling inside a storm. This kind of detail is important for understanding how storms behave and how the water essential to life moves around the planet. Watch the video to learn more about the satellite and how it observes our watery world.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ) [Lead]
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Video editor
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientists
- Chris Kidd (University of Maryland) [Lead]
- Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Gail Skofronick Jackson (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
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Producers
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Narration
- Ryan Fitzgibbons (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Narrator
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Jesse Allen (SSAI)
- John M. Kwiatkowski (George Mason University)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Robert Simmon (Sigma Space Corporation)
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