Published on April 27, 2017
Animation showing how space-borne gyroscopes are used to measure the
geodetic & frame-dragging effects of gravity on Earth’s local
spacetime, asa predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
Credits: Designed by Bob Kahn & James Overduin, Stanford/GP-B;
Animators Lee Kolb & Greg Trent, NASA/MSFC
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