NASA’s 3D Tech Never Fails! Watch This!


Mesmerizing and swirling animations of rain and snow dance across a map of the Earth, shown in a video released yesterday (Feb. 26) by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.

The NASA video captures worldwide precipitation from April to September 2014, and even showsHurricane Arthur twist into a tropical storm from July 2 to 4 in the Atlantic Ocean, said Gail Skofronick-Jackson, a GPM project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The “GPM mission is the first coordinated international satellite network that provides near real-time global estimates of rain and snow,” Skofronick-Jackson said at news conference yesterday. [Weirdo Weather: 7 Rare Weather Events]

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