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NOAA Satellites on Twitter: "On #EarthDay, read about the 4.5 billion-year-old origins of our #PaleBlueDot. Also, #DidYouKnow that Earth's actual shape is called an "oblate spheroid?" In other words, it's shaped like
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a) The oblate spheroid with major and minor semi-axes of a and b , and... | Download Scientific Diagram
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