{"id":78157,"date":"2018-05-01T06:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/twin-spacecraft-to-weigh-in-on-earths-changing-water"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T18:12:14","slug":"twin-spacecraft-to-weigh-in-on-earths-changing-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/twin-spacecraft-to-weigh-in-on-earths-changing-water","title":{"rendered":"Twin spacecraft to weigh in on Earth\u2019s changing water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twin-spacecraft-to-weigh-in-on-earths-changing-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of new spacecraft that will observe our planet\u2019s ever-changing water cycle, ice sheets and crust is in final preparations for a California launch no earlier than Saturday, May 19. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), will take over where the first GRACE mission left off when it completed its 15-year mission in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>GRACE-FO will continue monitoring monthly changes in the distribution of mass within and among Earth\u2019s atmosphere, oceans, land and ice sheets, as well as within the solid Earth itself. These data will provide unique insights into Earth\u2019s changing climate, Earth system processes and even the impacts of some human activities, and will have far-reaching benefits to society, such as improving water resource management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater is critical to every aspect of life on Earth\u2014for health, for agriculture, for maintaining our way of living,\u201d said Michael Watkins, GRACE-FO science lead and director of NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. \u201cYou can\u2019t manage it well until you can measure it. GRACE-FO provides a unique way to measure water in many of its phases, allowing us to manage water resources more effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-twin-spacecraft-earth.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-twin-spacecraft-earth.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of new spacecraft that will observe our planet\u2019s ever-changing water cycle, ice sheets and crust is in final preparations for a California launch no earlier than Saturday, May 19. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), will take over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78328,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78157\/revisions\/78328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}