Wikiquote

File:GPB circling earth.jpg

Original file ‎(1,200 × 900 pixels, file size: 213 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

This image upscaled image with terrible compression artifacts. If a higher-quality image is available, please consider replacing this one; otherwise, a replacement under a free license should be found or provided.

Please see Category:Image cleanup templates for templates used to mark images that only need a clean-up.

For more help, see Commons:Media for cleanup#Low quality images.
The factual accuracy of this illustration is disputed.
The grid representing the gravitational field/potential or space-time curvature is obviously qualitatively wrong (looks like a Gaussian instead of power-law).

Summary

Description Artist concept of Gravity Probe B orbiting the Earth to measure space-time, a four-dimensional description of the universe including height, width, length, and time.
Date
Source http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/gpb_012.html
Author NASA
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Original work of NASA

Licensing

Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

Captions

Four Dimensional (4d) Image, Spacetime.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

spacetime

inception

18 May 2008

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current01:52, 29 May 2015Thumbnail for version as of 01:52, 29 May 20151,200 × 900 (213 KB)Paine EllsworthUse originally sourced image sans distortions of coordinate grid
20:28, 18 May 2008Thumbnail for version as of 20:28, 18 May 20081,200 × 884 (846 KB)Suiseiseki{{Information |Description=Artist concept of Gravity Probe B orbiting the Earth to measure space-time, a four-dimensional description of the universe including height, width, length, and time. |Source=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gpb/gpb_012.html |Da

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

View more global usage of this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/File:GPB_circling_earth.jpg"