Earth  ID: 10480

GRACE Beauty Pass Animations

Released on August 14, 2009
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.
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The primary goal of the GRACE mission is to accurately map variations in the Earth's gravity field over its 5-year lifetime.
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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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Credits

Chris Meaney (HTSI): Lead Animator
Laura Motel (UMBC): Producer
John L. Labrecque (NASA): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Goddard TV Tape:
G2009-078 -- NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water

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