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Nature 391, 434-435 (29 January 1998) | doi:10.1038/35017

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Remote sensing:  Appreciate the gravity

Thomas A. Herring1

Two satellites will soon be launched that can measure annual variations in the Earth's gravity due to mass changes equivalent to 1 cm of water over 250,000 km2 — an area smaller than the Caspian Sea. This is gravity measurement of unprecedented accuracy.

  1. Thomas A. Herring is in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
    e-mail: Email: tah@mtglas.mit.edu