This Is The Current Shape of Our Planet?! As Modeled By GRACE Gravity Data. Planet Being Torn Apart!

This Is The Current Shape of Our Planet?! As Modeled By GRACE Gravity Data. Planet Being Torn Apart!

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No wonder so much weird stuff is happening to our planet. Is the planet a bit more spherical than that? It looks like the whole planet is becoming distorted!

GRACE

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) twin satellites, launched 17 March 2002, are making detailed measurements of Earth’s gravity field and improving investigations about Earth’s water reservoirs, over land, ice and oceans.

GRACE measures gravity by relating it to the distance between the 2 satellites.  When there is an increase in gravity ahead of the pair, the front satellite speeds up and the distance between the pair increases, when the increased gravity is between the pair their distance decreases; the opposite occurs when there is decreased gravity ahead of, or between the satellite pair.  The satellites are separated by 220 km and they can detect changes smaller than a micrometer per second in relative velocity.  These measurements, in conjunction with other data and models, have provided observations of terrestrial water storage changes, ice-mass variations, ocean bottom pressure changes and sea-level variations.
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/gravity/grace/