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GRACE being readied for launch - 2
GRACE being readied for launch - 2
GRACE on orbit - 1
GRACE on orbit - 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
Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates
GRACE Tellus Land TWS - Accuracy
The original GRACE satellites in a clean room in Germany.
GRACE Satellites Under Construction
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
The GRACE satellites are seen at an IABG testing facility in Germany.
GRACE Satellite Testing
One of the twin GRACE spacecraft is seen during construction in Germany.
GRACE Satellite Build
GRACE on orbit
GRACE on orbit
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
This animation illustrates the movements of the two GRACE-FO satellites as they orbit Earth.
GRACE-FO: from range observations to global mass change
One of the GRACE satellites undergoes thermal testing at IABG in Germany.
Thermal Testing for GRACE Satellite
Earth's gravity from space
Earth's gravity from space
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
This visualization of a gravity model was created with data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and shows variations in Earth’s gravity field.
GRACE global gravity animation
GRACE being readied for launch - 1
GRACE being readied for launch - 1
This animation illustrates the highs and lows of the Earth's gravity field as water in the basins of the U.S. changes over time.
GRACE data over the United States, 2003-2012
GRACE satellites are mounted belly to belly at an IABG testing facility in Germany.
GRACE Satellites at IABG
The GRACE satellites during component integration in a German clean room.
GRACE Component Integration
GRACE contribution to atmospheric studies explained.
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Measuring Earth's Gravity from Space exhibit
Measuring Earth's Gravity from Space exhibit
GRACE mission pre-launch poster
GRACE mission pre-launch poster
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
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
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