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English: A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, fades into the dark as it launches from the Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. The GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours.

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Image title	A Japanese H-IIA rocket with the NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory onboard, fades into the dark as it launches from the Tanegashima Space Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, Tanegashima, Japan. The GPM spacecraft will collect information that unifies data from an international network of existing and future satellites to map global rainfall and snowfall every three hours. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Date and time of data generation	03:38, 28 February 2014
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Date metadata was last modified	09:24, 27 February 2014
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Writer	bi
Special instructions	MANDATORY CREDIT: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Original transmission location code	201402280005HQ
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Keywords	Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission H-IIA Rocket Japan Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kagoshima Prefecture Launch Launch Pad 1 Tanegashima Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC)
Contact information	http://www.nasa.gov NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW Washington, DC, 20546 USA 202-358-1900
Country shown	Japan
Province or state shown	Kagoshima Prefecture
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