Description
The joint NASA-DLR-GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission (2002 - 2017) mapped the time-dependent gravity field with unprecedented precision, making it the only mission with the capability to track mass transport at a global scale. GRACE has been used to monitor the ongoing losses from ice sheets, thus deepening our understanding of the dominant process responsible for sea level rise, providing insights into where aquifers may be shrinking or where dry soils are contributing to drought, and to map the mass rearrangement within the solid Earth after great earthquakes. Since GRACE recently retired at the end of its extended lifetime, GFZ is currently implementing the GRACE Follow-on (GRACE-FO) mission together with NASA.
