GRACE Beauty Pass Animations

  • Released Friday, August 14, 2009
  • Updated Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 4:28PM
  • ID: 10480
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

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