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The 'geoid': Why NASA’s gravity model makes Earth look like a potato

Euronews · WorldNews · 2026-08-17

The 'geoid': Why NASA’s gravity model makes Earth look like a potato

Mapping Earth’s gravity, NASA has released a visualisation of the geoid — the apparent real shape of our planet given the global ocean surface if it were exclusively under the influence of gravity and Earth’s rotation. The 'geoid': Why NASA’s gravity model makes Earth look like a potato

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