Sentences with phrase «in the gravity field over»

They have found that that the loss of ice from West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012 caused a dip in the gravity field over the region.

«They have found that the loss of ice from West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012 caused a dip in the gravity field over the region.»

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I believe that the acceleration due to gravity is proportional to one over the distance squared in weak gravitational fields, because it has been measured literally millions of time and not violated.

Arrested in Houston in 1985 after running onto the field and kissing Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan and shortstop Dickie Thon, she successfully used a «gravity defense,» claiming in court that physics caused her to fall over an Astrodome fence and onto the playing surface.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmoGravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmogravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

To work out why the pole changed direction, Chen's team used data from NASA's GRACE satellite, which measures changes in Earth's gravity field over time.

The contribution from Antarctica adds up to 180 gigatonnes per year, but there is considerable uncertainty here because changes in the gravity field due to Earth's crust rebounding are less well understood over Antarctica than elsewhere.

1) Start by computing the total GHG - free air constant mass per unit area of a gas layer between any two heights under gravity g 2) Add in the hydrostatic equilibrium pressure change with height in the gravity field 3) Compute the total enthalpy per unit area of the layer realizing the layer possesses potential energy per unit area in earth's gravity field 4) From that, realize energy conservation imposes a constraint that total dry static energy is constant in the layer (within adiabatic control volume) 5) From this, realize and compute the total entropy (S) of the layer over the height of the layer 6) Transform S computation from height to pressure by way of hydrostatic eqn.

To work out why the pole changed direction, Chen's team used data from NASA's GRACE satellite, which measures changes in Earth's gravity field over time.

Over its lifetime of about 20 months, GOCE will map these global variations in the gravity field with extreme detail and accuracy.