Earth is not as round as you know it… 🌍 #shorts
ESA’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, GOCE’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: ESA’s pioneering science missions for Earth.
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It's a knotty geoid as I know it.
Squishy so it's potentially flat 😂
Would
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.
The Earth is unique! Amo la ASE! I LOVE ESA!!!!
And did you know that Earth is geometrically smoother than a billiard ball?
I ❤ ESA🫠
A good talk. Thank you!