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The Gravity of Water
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The Gravity of Water

In much of the world, differences in seasonal precipitation—and in how that water gets stored on land—are big enough to affect Earth’s gravity field.

Published Oct 22, 2010

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Freshwater Stores Shrank in Tigris-Euphrates Basin
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Freshwater Stores Shrank in Tigris-Euphrates Basin

An arid region grew even drier between 2003 and 2009 due to human consumption of water for drinking and agriculture.

Published Mar 13, 2013

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Water Storage Anomalies in Mississippi Basin
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Water Storage Anomalies in Mississippi Basin

These images show how terrestrial water storage in the four major sub-basins of the United States’ Mississippi River basin differed from average in January and July 2005.

Published Jan 26, 2007

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Seafloor Features Are Revealed by the Gravity Field
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Seafloor Features Are Revealed by the Gravity Field

Scientists read the bumps on the ocean surface to understand the shape of the seafloor below.

Published Dec 29, 2015

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Signs of the U.S. Drought Are Underground
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Signs of the U.S. Drought Are Underground

The GRACE satellites can detect the movement and depletion of water supplies at and below Earth’s surface.

Published Sep 20, 2012

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Studying Earth’s Gravity Field
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Studying Earth’s Gravity Field

The first image released from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a joint NASA-German Aerospace Center mission, graphically illustrates the sensitivity of the mission’s twin spacecraft to changes in Earth’s gravity

Published Dec 11, 2002

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A Decade of Water
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A Decade of Water

Groundwater supplies are decreasing across much of the world.

Published Nov 1, 2013

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Brazil’s Negro River Reaches Record Low
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Brazil’s Negro River Reaches Record Low

The impact of severe drought on the Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon River, and other rivers in the basin is dramatically evident in this pair of images, which show that every body of water has shrunk in 2010 compared to 2008.

Published Dec 11, 2010

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Global Groundwater Basins in Distress
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Global Groundwater Basins in Distress

About one third of Earth’s large groundwater basins are being rapidly depleted by human consumption even though we have little accurate data about how much water remains in them.

Published Jul 24, 2015

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Earth’s Gravity Field
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Earth’s Gravity Field

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has released its first science product: the most accurate map yet of Earth’s gravity field.

Published Jul 30, 2003

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Water Use On Idaho’s Snake River Plain
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Water Use On Idaho’s Snake River Plain

Natural vegetation and irrigated farmland along the Snake River Plain in Idaho use dramatically different amounts of water during the growing season.

Published Jan 26, 2010

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Boom-and-Bust Water Supplies in Southeast Australia
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Boom-and-Bust Water Supplies in Southeast Australia

New maps show the fluctuating river and lake levels in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Published Jul 16, 2016

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Syr Darya River Floodplain, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
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Syr Darya River Floodplain, Kazakhstan, Central Asia

Acquired September 30, 2010, this astronaut photograph shows part of the Syr Darya River Floodplain in Kazakhstan, where the river flows through braided channels.

Published Nov 1, 2010

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Amistad Reservoir
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Amistad Reservoir

Published Sep 1, 2003

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