Megha-Tropiques

<p>Megha-Tropiques  was a <a href="/facts/Satellite/PTX8c68t">satellite</a> mission to study the <a href="/facts/Water_cycle/wALHdKjJ">water cycle</a> in the tropical atmosphere in the context of climate change. A collaborative effort between Indian Space Research Organisation (<a href="/facts/ISRO/CdAoFQTL">ISRO</a>) and French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (<a href="/facts/CNES/4eJbr1fQ">CNES</a>), Megha-Tropiques was successfully deployed into orbit by a <a href="/facts/PSLV/KantsJM7">PSLV</a> rocket in October 2011.
</p><p>Megha-Tropiques was initially scrapped in 2003, but later revived in 2004 after India increased its contribution and overall costs were  lowered. With the progress made by <a href="/facts/GEWEX/JevD1PH5">GEWEX</a> (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment), Megha-Tropiques was designed to understand tropical meteorological and climatic processes, by obtaining reliable statistics on the water and energy budget of the tropical atmosphere. Megha-Tropiques complemented other data in regional monsoon projects such as MAHASRI and the completed GAME project. Megha-Tropiques also sought to describe the evolution of major tropical weather systems. The focus was the repetitive measurement of the tropics.
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