GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT-UNPRECEDENTED SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY
(SEE UPDATE-First Images of GPM at last page)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched, at 9.37 am (local time) on Friday 28 February 2014, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory on board of Launch vehicle H-IIA F23. This joint mission with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been realized by an international partnership with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Centre National D’Etudes Spaciales (CNES), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and CHINA. (Click here to watch video at middle of page)
LIVE TO TELL 2016- 13 OCTOBER
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION
Year in year out, the international community, mainly, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) is striving since 1989 by sensitizing Policy Makers, Decision-Takers, Governmental Institutions, Private Sector, Non-Governmental Organizations, Media and other Stakeholders to foster a culture of Disaster Resilience for the Protection and Safety of their respective Population, in face of the Impacts of Calamities-Man-Made and Natural. The main focus of this year of 2016 is to encourage the implementation of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Unfortunately, the targets do not seem to be achieved by many countries-super developed, developing and less developed, all across the Blue Planet. (Be patient to read more)
Mother Earth is the most Dynamic and Lively Planet of our solar system. She is also called Blue Planet or Blue Marble. The picture taken on 7 December 1972 by Apollo 17 crew gives a real appearance of Earth as from the Space. The dominant blue colour shows water and reflects the eternal sky, the brown and green depict the land masses and the clouds appear white.
