Eearth without seas and oceans
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looks like an asteroid
18/12/2014, 18:32
#nomakeup
The differences in altitude shouldn't be so great if the drawing is made to scale. Also, the scale itself is strange. A range of -80 to +80 (meters?) the oceans are nearly 4-5km deep and the Everest is almost 9km above sea level. On planetary scale, +/- 10km isn't as pronounced as on this model. For illustrative purposes, I can see why the artist would over exaggerate the differences in elevation though. oh well. nice illustration either way :)
Ah! Since I got curious, I found the source. http://www.asu.cas.cz/~bezdek/vyzkum/rotating_3d_globe/ This is a geoid map of our planet--supposed to help "visualizing the geoid height of new global gravity field models", exaggerated for easy viewing. Interesting stuff!
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