Aqua Program
Aqua is NASA’s active Earth Science water-cycle program, launched on 4 May 2002 as a NASA-centered international Earth Observing System mission. Its six instruments—AIRS, AMSU-A, HSB, AMSR-E, MODIS, and CERES—observe evaporation, water vapor, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea and land ice, snow, radiative energy, and related land and ocean variables. Aqua was developed as a partnership among the United States, Japan, and Brazil and continues collecting high-quality data from four instruments while operating in free drift.
Identity
- Aliases
- AquaAqua MissionEOS PMEOS-PM1Earth Observing System Aqua
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Aqua Program
- Status
- active
- Types
- scienceresearchoperations
Details
- Description
- Aqua is NASA’s active Earth Science water-cycle program, launched on 4 May 2002 as a NASA-centered international Earth Observing System mission. Its six instruments—AIRS, AMSU-A, HSB, AMSR-E, MODIS, and CERES—observe evaporation, water vapor, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea and land ice, snow, radiative energy, and related land and ocean variables. Aqua was developed as a partnership among the United States, Japan, and Brazil and continues collecting high-quality data from four instruments while operating in free drift.
- Leads
- Parent Program
- Participants
- Start Date
- 2002-05-04
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 17:54:37 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 23, 2026 at 00:21:08 UTC
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