Earth's Gravity Revealed in Unprecedented Detail

"They show that GOCE (satellite) will give us dynamic topography and circulation patterns of the oceans with unprecedented quality and resolution. I am confident that these results will help improve our understanding of the dynamics of world oceans."

Beautiful

It is amazing to see the strength of our planetary gravity in this way...so cool.

indeed.

It looks like the gravity strengths follow the fault lines...interesting.

These are Bouguer gradients for the whole planet ?

Gawd I love science.

In geodesy and geophysics, the Bouguer anomaly (named after Pierre Bouguer) is a gravity anomaly, corrected for the height at which it is measured and the attraction of terrain. The height correction alone gives a free-air anomaly.

On Earth the effect on gravity of elevation is 0.3086 mGal/m decrease when going up, minus the gravity of the Bouguer plate, giving the Bouguer gradient of 0.1967 mGal/m.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

easiest way for neutrons ? :D

the GOCE satellite is a wounder on its own. This one is a game changer for sure.

:boobbump:

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It looks like the majority of Africa to the Mid Atlantic region will be an area of interest for sure.

It's interesting if you watch the animated version. As it rotates away Africa and towards the Americas, you can start to see some curvature in "gravity"

oops, sorry, must have missed it.

Now that is sick (pun intended)!! Good find OP!

sickscent, you are one of few who post cool shit.

Thanks! I was wondering if this would make it through all the doom and gloom lately on GLP...pretty fucking cool that we can vicariously 'see' gravity.

Very cool indeed... could it also help in EQ predictions?

I don't know. I was just looking at this satellite's findings today...

why does gravity decrease when rising in elevation?
It should increase as there is more mass beneath you, I thought.

good question. Don't know, you need to ask a Gravitard.

I'm not gonna touch it. You touch it.

1) Bonus point for coining the term "Gravitard"

2) This tells me that either atomic density under the surface of the Earth is far from uniform (which we know already), and more-dense elements are congealed in certain areas causing gravity peaks and troughs, or

3) That whole "Push gravity" thing might have legs.

5* as usual SS !!!

You rock !

looks kinda like how we conceptualize sub atomic particles

I think you should add this to your blog ! ...just a thought