GRACE Beauty Pass Animations

  • Released Friday, August 14, 2009
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GRACE, Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment - twin satellites launched in March 2002, are making detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field which will lead to discoveries about gravity and Earth's natural systems. These discoveries could have far-reaching benefits to society and the world's population.

The primary goal of the GRACE mission is to accurately map variations in the Earth's gravity field over its 5-year lifetime.

The GRACE mission has two identical spacecrafts flying about 220 kilometers apart in a polar orbit 500 kilometers above the Earth.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

This page was originally published on Friday, August 14, 2009.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:54 PM EDT.

Tapes

This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:
  • NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water (ID: 2009078)
    Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 4:00AM
    Produced by - Tom Biddlecome (Raytheon)