Sentences with phrase «local gravity»

It also revealed annual variations in local gravity due to the natural storage and depletion of water during rainy and dry seasons in different parts of the world.

This decreasing trend in local gravity is sufficient to counteract all other sources of local sea - level rise.

Earthquakes jostle matter within the crust, thereby modifying local gravity.

Today pendulums have many applications, including measuring local gravity and helping guide ships and aircrafts.

Here, there is weakening of local gravity and enhancing of rebound of the Earth's crust out of the ocean, both caused by the rapid removal of ice mass.

Every 94 minutes or so, twin satellites whip once around Earth at an altitude of 310 miles, taking 30 days to cover the planet's entire surface, then they do it again and again, sensing variations in local gravity.

Reykjavik is so close to the ice loss of Greenland and Iceland that its local gravity is weakening.