Lowest gravity on Earth found in Sri Lanka
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:39 pm
Here is a very special news to all the brothers and sisters of Sri Lanka. When we were small we were told that the most gracious country in the world in Sri Lanka by our parents. This was came through generations by generations since the BC era of history. We were also told, Sri Lanka is in the middle of the Earth.
When we started learning so called western knowledge such as physics, mathematics, etc... some of the ideas that we believed in childhood has mostly gone or at least smoothed off. We came to belief that our ancestors were coming from an uneducated background where they have exaggerate on their motherland without facts.
However, now things are turning out in completely a different way where we have to rethink on what we have been taught by those parrots in universities.
Here is the story begins... This is about the finding of mission grace.
Some people thought that the lowest gravity on Earth would be on the highest peaks such as mount Everest. And some people predicted it could be at the centre of the Earth which no man can even think of landing. The place with lowest gravity can be thought of the centre of Earth (The Earth that we know is the surface). The best place for all space missions as the requirement of pulling power on rockets would be lowest in that region. Not only that, it would be the best place for extra terrestrials. When the gravity is low, the issue due to friction of air could be better controlled which makes it the best place for landing. Now let's move on to the scientific research on this subject.
GRACE is a joint partnership between the NASA in the United States and Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Germany. Dr. Byron Tapley of The University of Texas Center for Space Research (UTCSR) is the Principal Investigator (PI), and Dr. Christoph Reigber of the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam is the Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI). Project management and systems engineering activities are carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The primary goal of the GRACE mission is to accurately map variations in the Earth's gravity field over its 5-year lifetime. The GRACE mission has two identical spacecrafts flying about 220 kilometers apart in a polar orbit 500 kilometers above the Earth.
It maps the Earth's gravity fields by making accurate measurements of the distance between the two satellites, using geodetic quality Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and a microwave ranging system. This provides scientists from all over the world with an efficient and cost-effective way to map the Earth's gravity fields with unprecedented accuracy. The results from this mission yield crucial information about the distribution and flow of mass within the Earth and it's surroundings.
The result was this.
Earth is not a perfect sphere as we all know. But I never thought it is with this abnormal shape when the ocean is removed. Looks a bit scary.
Source: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery ... d_gravity/
Source: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery ... geoid.html
Source: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery ... _asia.html
European Space Agency Page
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQC9VTLKG_index_0.html
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRTIUhKfQM[/media]
Wikipedia: It is a shame to forget mentioning about "Sri Lanka" on that article even when the pictures say the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth
It is up to you to decide on the idea of our ancestors about the centre of Earth is indeed Sri Lanka. Best place for universal expeditions, best place for extraterrestrials (Aliens) to land or in other worlds the place which is close to heavens. Now it is time to rethink about the "Dandumonara yanthraya" or King Ravana's (who lived in about 5000BC) aviation technology.
According to the Bible and Kuran, Adam's peak (We call it Sripada as Load Buddha had marked his foot print on a precious stone) is known as a the place where god placed Adam to this world who is his first creation. Our ancestors believed that the Adam's peak (Sripada) is a peak which touches the heaven. One day we all have to get together and try to find the truth. It is time for all the scientists around the world to visit this glorious holy land and start research on revealing the truth. It seems there is no need to spend millions on space expeditions when the truth is already here.
When we started learning so called western knowledge such as physics, mathematics, etc... some of the ideas that we believed in childhood has mostly gone or at least smoothed off. We came to belief that our ancestors were coming from an uneducated background where they have exaggerate on their motherland without facts.
However, now things are turning out in completely a different way where we have to rethink on what we have been taught by those parrots in universities.
Here is the story begins... This is about the finding of mission grace.
Some people thought that the lowest gravity on Earth would be on the highest peaks such as mount Everest. And some people predicted it could be at the centre of the Earth which no man can even think of landing. The place with lowest gravity can be thought of the centre of Earth (The Earth that we know is the surface). The best place for all space missions as the requirement of pulling power on rockets would be lowest in that region. Not only that, it would be the best place for extra terrestrials. When the gravity is low, the issue due to friction of air could be better controlled which makes it the best place for landing. Now let's move on to the scientific research on this subject.
GRACE is a joint partnership between the NASA in the United States and Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Germany. Dr. Byron Tapley of The University of Texas Center for Space Research (UTCSR) is the Principal Investigator (PI), and Dr. Christoph Reigber of the GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam is the Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI). Project management and systems engineering activities are carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The primary goal of the GRACE mission is to accurately map variations in the Earth's gravity field over its 5-year lifetime. The GRACE mission has two identical spacecrafts flying about 220 kilometers apart in a polar orbit 500 kilometers above the Earth.
It maps the Earth's gravity fields by making accurate measurements of the distance between the two satellites, using geodetic quality Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and a microwave ranging system. This provides scientists from all over the world with an efficient and cost-effective way to map the Earth's gravity fields with unprecedented accuracy. The results from this mission yield crucial information about the distribution and flow of mass within the Earth and it's surroundings.
The result was this.
Earth is not a perfect sphere as we all know. But I never thought it is with this abnormal shape when the ocean is removed. Looks a bit scary.
Source: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery ... d_gravity/
Source: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery ... geoid.html
Source: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/gallery ... _asia.html
European Space Agency Page
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQC9VTLKG_index_0.html
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRTIUhKfQM[/media]
Wikipedia: It is a shame to forget mentioning about "Sri Lanka" on that article even when the pictures say the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth
It is up to you to decide on the idea of our ancestors about the centre of Earth is indeed Sri Lanka. Best place for universal expeditions, best place for extraterrestrials (Aliens) to land or in other worlds the place which is close to heavens. Now it is time to rethink about the "Dandumonara yanthraya" or King Ravana's (who lived in about 5000BC) aviation technology.
According to the Bible and Kuran, Adam's peak (We call it Sripada as Load Buddha had marked his foot print on a precious stone) is known as a the place where god placed Adam to this world who is his first creation. Our ancestors believed that the Adam's peak (Sripada) is a peak which touches the heaven. One day we all have to get together and try to find the truth. It is time for all the scientists around the world to visit this glorious holy land and start research on revealing the truth. It seems there is no need to spend millions on space expeditions when the truth is already here.