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The Earth is round, and is also a shifting, squashed spheroid
Earth is often described as a circle or an oval, but it is neither. As the planet spins more than 1,000 miles per hour at the ...
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Mars time runs faster: relativity’s new challenge for space networks
The passage of time is fundamental to the theory of relativity: how you realize it, how you calculate it, and what influences it,” said Bijunath Patla, a physicist at the National Institute of ...
Abstract: Based on the formalism of General Relativity, we analyze generalizations of concepts used in conventional geodesy. One such concept is the Earth's geoid. We present our definition of the ...
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