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| | Top Story - LIGHT ON WATER: AQUA SENDS FIRST PICTURES- June 24, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Aqua's assets include a suite of six highly advanced instruments, designed to study the Earth in terms of its systemic interactions. |
 | | Working in concert or independently, Aqua's scientific hardware will be used to study climate change, vegetation, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, snow cover and more. |
 | | Aqua is just one component of NASA's growing Earth Observing System, an integrated fleet of satellites and data collection procedures designed to study the Earth in terms of conjoined, interdependent processes. |
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