Gail Skofronick-Jackson, GPM’s project scientist says: "Happy Birthday GPM! I'm so proud of this mission and everyone that helped it along the way, from the engineers that built it, to the scientists that analyze the data and developed the precipitation retrievals, to our ground validation teams, and to the application users already using the data to save lives by predicting hurricane locations, floods, and landslides." This is the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's first global ra