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Aqua  

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  • "Aqua", Latin for "water," is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice. Additional variables also being measured by Aqua include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures. Aqua is one of a series of spacebased platforms that are central to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE), a long term study of the scope, dynamics and implications of global change. The Aqua program is composed of Aqua and other spacecraft (including Terra and Aura) and a data distribution system (ESDIS, and Mission Operations Center Implementation Team). Multidisciplinary teams of scientists and researchers from North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe will put the data to work. The Aqua mission is a part of the NASA-centered international Earth Observing System (EOS). Aqua was formerly named EOS PM, signifying its afternoon equatorial crossing time. Aqua was launched May 4, 2002. For more information on the Aqua mission, see: https://aqua.nasa.gov/ For more information on the Earth Observing System (EOS), see: https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (en)

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  • Aqua (en)

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  • 2016-09-13 17:46:10.0 [saritz] insert AltLabel (id: null text: AQUA language code: en); update PrefLabel (Aqua);
  • 2016-10-13 16:36:39.0 [saritz] update AltLabel (Aqua); update PrefLabel (AQUA);
  • 2017-10-10 15:11:00.0 [sritz] update PrefLabel (Aqua);
  • 2017-10-11 11:39:29.0 [sritz] update AltLabel (Earth Observing System (EOS), Aqua);
  • 2020-12-28 16:11:39.0 [sritz] update Definition ("Aqua", Latin for "water," is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice. Additional variables also being measured by Aqua include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures. Aqua is one of a series of spacebased platforms that are central to NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE), a long term study of the scope, dynamics and implications of global change. The Aqua program is composed of Aqua and other spacecraft (including Terra and Aura) and a data distribution system (ESDIS, and Mission Operations Center Implementation Team). Multidisciplinary teams of scientists and researchers from North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe will put the data to work. The Aqua mission is a part of the NASA-centered international Earth Observing System (EOS). Aqua was formerly named EOS PM, signifying its afternoon equatorial crossing time. Aqua was launched May 4, 2002. For more information on the Aqua mission, see: https://aqua.nasa.gov/ For more information on the Earth Observing System (EOS), see: https://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/); update Definition (https://aqua.nasa.gov/);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/d4dd9cfc-2625-4d4d-9b5b-67bb541baa8d

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