Earth is not as round as you know it… ๐ŸŒ #shorts

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ESAโ€™s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) was launched in 2009 and flew over Earth at 260 km of altitude for 4 years.

Even after the end of this mission, GOCEโ€™s data is still being used to unearth secrets about our planet.

Stay with us if you want to learn more about the Earth Explorers: ESAโ€™s pioneering science missions for Earth.

๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ ESA – European Space Agency

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  1. Thanks for the video! Important thing that wasn't mentioned is that the pictured geoid is extremely exaggerated (by a factor of 10000 or so), as the actual sea level differences would be within 200m of each other. So without the exaggeration it would still look like a sphere.

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