PIA22840: Changes in Mass, North America
NASA's GRACE-FO shows North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising the Great Lakes to record levels.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  GRACE-FO 
 Spacecraft:  GRACE-FO
 Instrument:  Microwave Ranging Instrument 
 Product Size:  2457 x 1513 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22840.tif (6.842 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22840.jpg (582.4 kB)  

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North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising the Great Lakes to record levels.

For more information on GRACE-FO, go to https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-08-20