Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and that change is accelerating. The reason is connected to the same mechanisms that also have caused the planet’s axis to […]
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Earth Science, Earth, Earth Science Division, Earth's Moon, GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment), GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on), Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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July 19, 2024
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