Tropical storm Dylan was heading from the Coral Sea toward Australia's Queensland coast when it was viewed by the TRMM satellite on January 30, 2014 at 0214 UTC. The rainfall analysis above used data collected by TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments. Rainfall is shown overlaid on an enhanced visible/infrared image from TRMM's Visible and InfraRed Scanner (VIRS). TRMM's TMI data revealed that moderate to heavy rain falling at a rate of over 31 mm/hr (about 1.2 inches) was preceding Dylan's movement toward the Australian coast. Dylan's approximate past and

The TRMM satellite flew above a tropical low (91S) in the Mozambique Channel on January 28, 2014 at 1011 UTC. TRMM data collected with this pass may be helpful in evaluating this low for possible tropical cyclone formation. An analysis of rainfall from TRMM's Microwave Imager (TMI) and Precipitation Radar (PR) instruments are shown on the left overlaid on a visible/infrared image from TRMM 's Visible and InfraRed Scanner (VIRS). TRMM PR measured rain falling at the rate of over 134.9 mm/hr (about 5.3 inches) in a band of powerful convective thunderstorms north of the center of circulation. A 3

The launch vehicle for the Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission's Core Observatory arrived at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, in the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday, Jan. 21, local time. The Japanese H-IIA rocket, No. 23, has two stages that arrived by cargo freighter the previous evening. They were then trucked across the island in the middle of the night when no cars were on the road. Both stages of the Japanese H-IIA rocket arrived at Tanegashima Island, Japan on Jan. 20, 2014. Above, the first stage in its shipping container is lifted off of the cargo freighter. It and the upper