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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Apr-2026 19:16:26 JST Information Is Beautiful

May I present to you, the Potsdam Gravity Potato?
Areas of the earth where the gravitational field is mysteriously weaker (blue) or stronger (orange)
via @earthlymission
https://earthlymission.com/the-potsdam-gravity-potato/
In conversation about 2 months ago from vis.social permalink
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1. Distorted, potato-shaped rendering of the Earth showing variations in its gravitational field. Colors represent the strength of the gravity, with reds and yellows indicating stronger gravity and blues and purples indicating weaker gravity relative to a smooth, idealized Earth. Continents are faintly visible on the surface, providing geographical context to the gravitational anomalies.
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  The Potsdam Gravity Potato
  
  from Tamás Varga
  
  Why do some places on Earth have higher gravity than others? Sometimes the reason is unknown. To help better understand the Earth's surface, sensitive measurements by the orbiting satellites GRACE and CHAMP were used to create a map of Earth's gravitational field. Since a center for studying these data is in Potsdam, Germany, and since

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