Sentences with phrase «gps stations moved»
One researcher noticed that all of the GPS stations moved upward since 2003, coinciding with the timing of the current drought.
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The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.
There was no shaking, but over several weeks, Global Positioning System (GPS) stations reversed their usual direction and moved 2 to 4 mm to the southwest, as Herb Dragert of the Geological Survey of Canada in Sidney, British Columbia, and colleagues reported last year (Science, 25 May 2001, p. 1525).
In other words, all the GPS stations on one side of a given fault moved several centimeters in the same general direction.
Over that period, he and his colleagues have installed a network of GPS stations in Nepal that allows them to monitor the way Earth's crust moves during and in between earthquakes.
GPS stations record how the bedrock is moving in response to changes in ice mass.