The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission - part I: New frontiers in precipitation

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory measuring over a mid‐latitude storm. The red, white, magenta, maroon and blue lines indicate the flight path, satellite altitude, GPM Microwave Imager swath, Dual‐frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) Ku‐band (KuPR) swath and DPR Ka‐band (KaPR) swath, respectively. The rainfall is heaviest where red and lightest where dark blue; 3‐dimensional measurements are only available from the DPR segment of the swath. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio; adapted from original image.