Is the Earth a Misshapen Sphere According to NASA? Confusion Surrounds a Representation of the Globe.
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In mid-July, NASA published on its website a visualization of Earth in the form of a "geoid," a mathematical model that represents Earth's gravitational field and is considered the closest representation of Earth. However, one of these visualizations, intentionally exaggerated to highlight areas affected by gravity, is not to scale, as NASA had to clarify.
In the strange form of a "patatoid", the geoid reveals a Earth quite different from the one we see on its surface. To understand how this mysterious surface deforms, it is necessary to go back to the eighteenth century, when Pierre Bouguer tries to measure the gravitational influence of a...
Last July, the Nasa presented the Earth in a completely distorted form. It is a geoid, a mathematical model used to observe our planet under the effect of gravity and its rotation. The Earth in an unprecedented form. On its website, the Nasa presented in July a model of the Earth in a completely humped aspect. It is a geoid, which allows to visualize the variations of the Earth's gravitational field. The blue planet is then far from being like a…
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