“If you pour water on the surface of the Earth, the level that the water takes is called a geoid — and that is controlled by these density differences in the material inside the ...

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

Earth, in fact, is an ellipsoid, a little bit squashed at the poles and fat around the equator, not to mention speckled with mountain ranges. And then you have the geoid people—the ones who ...

Credit: International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM) / E. S., Barthelmes, F., Reißland, S., Elger, Like all scientific mysteries, the Indian Ocean geoid low ...

slabs of the Tethys plate sank into Earth's lower mantle and churned up magma, generating the plumes. 'These plumes, along with the mantle structure in the vicinity of the geoid low ...

But in reality, Earth is flatter than a true sphere around ... A pronounced dip in the geoid under the Indian Ocean—called the Indian Ocean geoid low (IOGL)—is the planet’s most prominent ...

The area in question is called the Indian Ocean Geoid Low and sea level above it is nearly 348 feet (106 meters) lower than the global average. Earth's gravitational pull is comparatively lower in ...

Known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), this region experiences weaker gravitational forces than anywhere else on Earth, and until now, its origins remained a mystery. New research ...

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 ...