Measuring Frame-dragging due to Earth’s Rotation

Impressive engineering feat, the Earth isn’t all that massive. 

NASA Gravity Probe Confirms Two Einstein Theories | NASA’s Gravity Probe B | Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity | Space.com

A NASA probe orbiting Earth has confirmed two key predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which describes how gravity causes masses to warp space-time around them.  

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