Sentence examples for gravity measurements from inspiring English sources

The topographic and gravity measurements enabled the scientists to peer at the geological structures below Tharsis.

In an accompanying article, several scientists cautioned that there could be other explanations of the gravity measurements and that it would be difficult to test which was correct.

At each anchorage, mapping parties got their bearings in observations of the sun and stars, checked the chronometer for longitude and made gravity measurements to determine variations in the shape of the earth.

In the first paper, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory took a closer look at the boundary, using topographical measurements by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter and gravity measurements from the Mars Odyssey.

The presence of such features can be detected by various means, including gravity measurements, seismic methods, and the analysis of borehole samples from exploratory drilling.

So it could go either way.Meanwhile, Nature Geoscience reports that new satellite gravity measurements show that the East Antarctic ice sheet has been losing mass for the past three years.

Gravity measurements can be used to track the movement and changing density of ice at the poles, the transport of huge volumes of water in deep undersea currents, the movement of water in and out of underground aquifers and even the slow shift of magma in volcanically active regions, Dr. Watkins said.

A more refined analysis of the gravity measurements has revealed what the scientists described as likely traces of buried channels that could have been carved out by floods of water from the southern highlands flowing into the northern lowlands billions of years ago.

In another report on Global Surveyor's findings, published in Science, a team of geophysicists led by Dr. Maria Zuber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology described gravity measurements revealing the structure of the crust of Mars -- and more evidence of the planet's split geological personality.

Gravity measurements give a mass of 10 billion tonnes.

And then there's the uncertain future of gravity measurements.