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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
Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates
GRACE Tellus Land TWS - Accuracy
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
GRACE mission pre-launch poster
GRACE mission pre-launch poster
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
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
GRACE logo
GRACE logo
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
The GRACE satellites are seen at an IABG testing facility in Germany.
GRACE Satellite Testing
Measuring Earth's Gravity from Space exhibit
Measuring Earth's Gravity from Space exhibit
The GRACE satellites during component integration in a German clean room.
GRACE Component Integration
One of the GRACE satellites undergoes thermal testing at IABG in Germany.
Thermal Testing for GRACE Satellite
GRACE being readied for launch - 2
GRACE being readied for launch - 2
These images show the changes in gravity anomalies from GRACE over the Amazon Basin for each month of 2004.
Amazon Basin seasonal hydrology
GRACE being readied for launch - 1
GRACE being readied for launch - 1
This animation illustrates the movements of the two GRACE-FO satellites as they orbit Earth.
GRACE-FO: from range observations to global mass change
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
Twin GRACE spacecraft being deployed from Breeze
Twin GRACE spacecraft being deployed from Breeze
GRACE satellites are mounted belly to belly at an IABG testing facility in Germany.
GRACE Satellites at IABG
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)
One of the twin GRACE spacecraft is seen during construction in Germany.
GRACE Satellite Build
The twin GRACE satellites are seen in a clean room in Germany in 2002.
GRACE Satellites in Clean Room
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
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
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