Earth is a perfect sphere, the minor and major axis have the same measurement
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false, The Earth is not a perfect sphere but approximately an oblate spheroid (an ellipse rotated around its minor axis) with a larger radius at the equator than at the poles
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Earth is a perfect sphere, the minor and major axis have the same measurement.
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ellipsoid
The Earth is an irregularly shaped ellipsoid.
- While the Earth appears to be round when viewed from the vantage point of space, it is actually closer to an ellipsoid. However, even an ellipsoid does not adequately describe the Earth's unique and ever-changing shape.
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