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Aqua is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission that is collecting data about the Earth's water cycle.

Type

Orbiter

Launch

May 4, 2002

Target

Earth

Objective

Study Earth's water cycle

Latest Stories Featuring Aqua Research and Data

Floods Inundate Southern Mozambique
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Weeks of intense rain overwhelmed rivers and reservoirs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

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Snow Buries Kamchatka
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December and January brought a series of intense winter storms to the peninsula in far eastern Russia.

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Fires on the Rise in the Far North
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Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.

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Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime
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An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than…

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Fire Threatens Rare Forests in Argentina
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Blazes spread across Los Alerces National Park, home to some of the world's oldest trees.

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New Timing for Stubble Burning in India
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Scientists say the seasonal crop fires are burning later in the day than in previous years.

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