Grace Current Affairs, GK & News

Earth Axis Shift increases

A recent study conducted by the American Geophysical Union has found that the melting glaciers have been increasing the shift of earth axis. What is Earth Axis Shift? The rotational axis of the earth is the axis around which it rotates as it revolves around the sun. The axis virtually is a line connecting the ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: earth axis • Glaciers • Grace • international date line • magnetic poles • NASA • pole wander • poles

GRACE—FO Mission

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO) mission is a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). GRACE-FO is a successor to the original GRACE mission, which began orbiting Earth on March 17, 2002. GRACE-FO will carry on the extremely successful work of its predecessor while testing a new technology ..

Topics: Earth Observing System • Glaciology • Grace • GRACE and GRACE-FO • Gravimetry • Gravity of Earth • Ice sheet • Spacecraft • Spaceflight • Synthetic aperture radar