2007 EARTH SCIENCE VIDEOTAPES |
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| TRMM TURNS TEN | G07-075 | 11/20/07 | 05:53 | Earth: water planet. Oceans, rivers, aquifers, rain: these and many other features describe the hydrologic anatomy of Earth's thin, life-supporting layers of upper crust and lower atmosphere. How it works-that is, how water circulates, behaves, and interacts is much harder to determine. That's why there's TRMM, and this year NASA celebrates the tenth anniversary of this one-of-a-kind spacecraft. Built in cooperation with the Japanese Space agency JAXA, The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission has helped scientists re-write the book about profound parts of Earth's water cycle.
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| ITEM (1): TRMM Reveals Hurricane Katrina Anatomy - Instruments on TRMM helps scientists look inside the clouds of a hurricane in order to dissect the storm's structure. This visualization reveals the inner workings of Hurricane Katrina observed on August 28, 2005. This kind of imagery has come to be known informally as ÒCATÓ scans for their resemblance to the medical technology that can peer inside a person's body. High rainfall rates appear in red, low rates in blue.
Courtesy: NASA
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| ITEM (2): Global Rainfall Distribution - About two thirds of all the planet's rain falls in the tropics. In this visualization we see the distribution of rainfall worldwide as a moving three hour average, measured between January 1 through December 31, 2005. TRMM contributed a vital component of this overall product.
Courtesy: NASA
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| ITEM (3): TRMM Spacecraft - The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is the first Earth Science mission dedicated to studying tropical and subtropical rainfall: precipitation that falls within 35 degrees north and 35 degrees south of the equator. Flying at a low orbital altitude of 240 miles (400 kilometers), TRMM's data collection of tropical precipitation helps improve our understanding about climate and weather.
Courtesy: NASA/NOAA
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| ITEM (4): Reporters Package
Courtesy: NASA
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