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GRACE mission pre-launch poster
GRACE mission pre-launch poster
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Measuring Earth's Gravity from Space exhibit
Measuring Earth's Gravity from Space exhibit
One of the twin GRACE spacecraft is seen during construction in Germany.
GRACE Satellite Build
Twin GRACE spacecraft being deployed from Breeze
Twin GRACE spacecraft being deployed from Breeze
NASAs Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has measured significant groundwater depletion around the world in recent years. These animations show trends in total water storage from Jan....
GRACE Sees Groundwater Losses Around the World
GRACE on orbit
GRACE on orbit
GRACE being readied for launch - 1
GRACE being readied for launch - 1
The GRACE Intermediate Field 48 (GIF48 from UT-CSR) field model is an improved mean gravity field that combines GRACE observations with terrestrial and ocean gravity information for the small-scale...
Static gravity field - anomalies (1)
This animation shows the annual water storage changes over the U.S. from GRACE from 2003 - 2013.
Annual water storage changes over the U.S. From GRACE
NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE, 2002 - 2017) mission, and its successor GRACE Follow-On (launched in 2018), map month-to-month changes in Earth's gravity field resulting from...
GRACE and GRACE-FO track California's land water changes
The twin GRACE satellites are seen in a clean room in Germany in 2002.
GRACE Satellites in Clean Room
This animation illustrates the movements of the two GRACE-FO satellites as they orbit Earth.
GRACE-FO: from range observations to global mass change
Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates
GRACE Tellus Land TWS - Accuracy
This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle — droughts and pluvials — over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites. Dry events are sho...
Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials
This image shows the mean annual amplitude of total water storage on Earth in 2007 as measured by GRACE.
Total water storage from GRACE, 2007
Earth's gravity from space
Earth's gravity from space
The original GRACE satellites in a clean room in Germany.
GRACE Satellites Under Construction
The amount of water stored in the Amazon basin varies from month to month, and can be monitored from space by looking at how it alters Earth's gravity field.
Measuring Water Storage in the Amazon
One of the GRACE satellites undergoes thermal testing at IABG in Germany.
Thermal Testing for GRACE Satellite
GRACE contribution to atmospheric studies explained.
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GRACE being readied for launch - 2
GRACE being readied for launch - 2
Research based on GRACE observations indicates that between 2002 and 2021, Greenland shed approximately 280 gigatons of ice per year.
Greenland Ice Loss 2002-2021
The mass of the Polar ice sheets have changed over the last decades. Research based on observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites (2002-2017) and GRACE Follow-...
GRACE and GRACE-FO polar ice mass loss
GRACE satellites are mounted belly to belly at an IABG testing facility in Germany.
GRACE Satellites at IABG
GRACE on orbit - 1
GRACE on orbit - 1
The GRACE satellites are seen at an IABG testing facility in Germany.
GRACE Satellite Testing
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