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What are the effects of mass concentration along a planet's axis of rotation?
Reading about geological history of Mars and coming across the Martian dichotomy, which is about having the two hemispheres' geography differ in elevation by 1 to 3 km.
Does this mean that Mars' ...
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Has the computed change of the axial tilt ever been measured?
Earth, the 3rd planet from the Sun, sometimes faces earthquakes and seaquakes that are so strong that they reportedly change the axial tilt and/or the rotation velocity. These changes are merely ...
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Why isn't Earth a perfect sphere? [closed]
In general, almost everyone describes Earth as an perfect sphere, but in reality it isn't a perfect sphere.
Is there any specific reason why Earth is not perfect sphere ?
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