Category Archives: Grace Satellite

Gravimetry

Posted on October 25, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Gravity map of the Southern Ocean around the Antarctic continentThis gravity field was computed from sea-surface height measurements collected by the US Navy GEOSAT altimeter between March, 1985, and January, 1990. The high density GEOSAT Geodetic Mission data that lie … Continue reading →

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Grail At the Moon

Posted on August 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Grail Recovery and Interior Labratory NASA’s Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today. As of 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST), GRAIL-A is in a … Continue reading →

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Space Geodesy

Posted on July 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Project manager Stephen Merkowitz talks about his work with NASA’s Space Geodesy Project, including a brief overview of the four fundamental techniques of space geodesy: GPS, VLBI, SLR, and DORIS. Learn more about space geodesy at: http://space-geodesy.nasa.gov/ This video is … Continue reading →

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Core Optics

Posted on June 26, 2012 by PlatoHagel

A pair of polished Advanced LIGO end mirrors (ETM’s) Core optics are the 40-kg masses that form the heart of a LIGO detector. A core optic is manufactured from fused silica, polished to a few nanometers of smoothness and coated … Continue reading →

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Geodesy and geophysics

Posted on March 6, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Mean Gravity Field Anomalies by definition would require that we understand something about our selves that we did not know before, in that the whole history of you, is a large synopsis of everything that thinks and breath? Imagine indeed … Continue reading →

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Grail: Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory

Posted on January 1, 2012 by PlatoHagel

GRAIL Spacecraft Logo NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft logo is emblazoned on the first stage of a United Launch Alliance Delta II launch vehicle, now secured in the gantry at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space … Continue reading →

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The Lunar Far Side: The Side Never Seen from Earth

Posted on November 14, 2010 by PlatoHagel

                                                            Mass concentration (astronomy) This figure shows the topography (top) and corresponding gravity (bottom) signal … Continue reading →

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FLOW

Posted on April 25, 2010 by PlatoHagel

oscopelabs — July 29, 2008 — Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century – The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of … Continue reading →

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GOCE delivering data for best gravity map ever

Posted on February 10, 2010 by PlatoHagel

30 September 2009Following the launch and in-orbit testing of the most sophisticated gravity mission ever built, ESA’s GOCE satellite is now in ‘measurement mode’, mapping tiny variations in Earth’s gravity in unprecedented detail.  The ‘Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation … Continue reading →

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Mapping Weather Changes

Posted on April 20, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Plato Said: More to the truth then. A device, that reveals what “color of gravity” means as you display your patronage in thought. More to the “signature of your soul being,” that while thinking genome, it’s more what you like … Continue reading →

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