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Candace: The Dual Precipitation Radar, or DPR,
made its way here from Japan. It was built by a company called
NTSpace working for JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency.
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Art: The radars once they arrive here, they go through some
processing, make sure during the shipment there was no damage done to
the radars, even though we do have shock monitors on the boxes that we make sure there
was no unexpected
incidents happened during the transportation
However, in spite of that, we still go through
processing in house here, that we check, make sure functionally
they're still working properly before they hand it over
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Candace: The Dual Precipitation Radar, or DPR, has two parts:
the first is the KaPR and the second is the
KuPR, those are two different bands. And it
provides simultaneous measurements in both of the bands,
and it can be used to make combined products together with
the GMI that allow the scientists to determine a lot more
about precipitation, from rain, through snow, be it light
or be it heavy, than they know today.
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