Piggynap's Blog | Zoe Piper » gravity http://www.piggynap.com Zoe Piper, The Internet And Everything Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Earth’s Gravitational Field Is Lumpy http://www.piggynap.com/awesome/the-earths-gravitational-field-is-lumpy/ http://www.piggynap.com/awesome/the-earths-gravitational-field-is-lumpy/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:08:39 +0000 admin http://www.piggynap.com/?p=580 Check out these images of the earth’s gravitational field taken by a couple of satellites from the GRACE project:
way cool lumpy gravity

This information will let scientists get a better idea of the earth’s internal structure, in turn helping them to model things like weather patterns and geographic change more accurately. Plus, it looks awesome.

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