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NASA 3D Models: Aqua

Published by National Aeronautics and Space Administration | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: May 06, 2026 at 07:45 PM | Dataset Last Updated: April 01, 2025
Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission is 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.

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description Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission is 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.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
Copyright 2016 California Institute of Technology.
U.S. Government sponsorship acknowledged.",
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identifier NASA-309
issued 2018-06-25
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                                            [
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  "aqua",
  "satellite",
  "spacecraft"
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]
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                                            [
  "Management/Operations"
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title NASA 3D Models: Aqua

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