Professor Attreyee Ghosh’s assertion that “The Earth is basically a lumpy potato,” will appeal to those who are curious about ...

There is a “gravity ... affects Earth’s surface and its gravity, Ghosh added. “If you pour water on the surface of the Earth, the level that the water takes is called a geoid — and that ...

Scientists call this the geoid. The differences in Earth’s gravity are actually quite small, so most visual representations of the geoid are exaggerated to highlight the bumpiness, Shum told me.

Attreyee Ghosh, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. “It is the lowest geoid/gravity anomaly on Earth, and so far, no consensus ...

The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these ...

Credit: International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM ... the Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL) — also known as the Indian Ocean's "gravity hole" — shouldn't exist based on what we ...

At the geoid low’s lowest point, where sea level plunges over 328 feet, is a gravity hole where Earth’s gravitational pull is weaker and its mass is lower than normal. In explaining this ...

There is a place on Earth where the laws of gravity as we know them do not apply. Officially known as "the Indian Ocean geoid low" (IOGL), it is informally referred to as the Indian Ocean gravity ...

Here’s where gravity varies the most across the Earth. We often draw Earth as a smooth sphere, but our planet is lumpy and bumpy, an irregular shape called the geoid. Using satellite-based data ...