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Aqua
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aqua/index.html

Aqua is a major international Earth Science satellite mission centered at NASA. Launched on May 4, 2002, the satellite has six different Earth-observing instruments on board and is named for the large amount of information being obtained about water in the Earth system from its stream of approximately 89 Gigabytes of data a day. The water variables being measured include almost all elements of the water cycle and involve water in its liquid, solid, and vapor forms. Additional variables being measured include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures.


3 posted on 12/19/2008 1:05:42 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: NormsRevenge
Is this all that NASA does anymore? Why don't they try to fix the shuttle, build a good rocket or something? Maybe they should just change their name from NASA JPL to AGWATT (All Global Warming All The Time)
20 posted on 12/19/2008 1:52:27 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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