{"id":3927988,"date":"2026-09-16T16:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/snow-monsoons-and-oceans-shift-earths-center-of-mass-each-year-satellite-tracking-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:01:40","slug":"snow-monsoons-and-oceans-shift-earths-center-of-mass-each-year-satellite-tracking-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/snow-monsoons-and-oceans-shift-earths-center-of-mass-each-year-satellite-tracking-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow, monsoons and oceans shift Earth&#8217;s center of mass each year, satellite tracking shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Seasonal changes redistribute enough water around Earth to shift the planet&#8217;s center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to its geometric center. NASA scientists are on the case, tracking the oscillations because Earth&#8217;s center of mass is a crucial reference point for satellite navigation and elevation measurements.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-monsoons-oceans-shift-earth-center.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seasonal changes redistribute enough water around Earth to shift the planet&#8217;s center of mass back and forth by fractions of an inch relative to its geometric center. NASA scientists are on the case, tracking the oscillations because Earth&#8217;s center of mass is a crucial reference point for satellite navigation and elevation measurements. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}