Satellites measuring Earth’s melting ice sheets to go dark

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Satellites measuring Earth’s melting ice sheets to go dark

By Paul VoosenSep. 15, 2017 , 11:30 AM

A sentinel of Earth’s climate is going dark. After running for a decade beyond its planned life, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) is nearly out of fuel and will soon make its final science run, NASA announced late yesterday. The tandem of satellites—called GRACE-1 and GRACE-2—measure minute shifts in Earth’s gravity to chart flows of mass across the planet, such as the unexpectedly rapid melt of polar ice sheets and the drawdown of underground water reservoirs called aquifers.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/satellites-measuring-earth-s-melting-ice-sheets-go-dark

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This couldn't be a "selective" electronics loss by any chance, could it, preventing scientists from reports the changes?