<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - planet]]> 10 <![CDATA[Sweetness and goodness should not cause shame]]> If we admire the latest images that NASA has published in an article about the shape of the Earth, we will be surprised that it is not a perfect and smooth sphere; and, if we read the information from the research, we will find out that it is not a knobby and sprouted tuber either. When you step back a little, you see that this home is a deformed geoid with all sorts of roughness, instead of the perfectly polished ball with clearly blue, green, white, and brown iridescence. From space, it does not resemble any pure geometry at all, but rather a wild fruit – an imperfect delight.

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The easiest way to represent our planet is as it is: with a globe—a sphere. But things get complicated when we need to represent it on a flat surface—a sheet of paper or a screen—to create what we know as a map. The answer to "Which is the most accurate map of the world?" or "Which world map is most similar to reality?" is confusing: all of them or none. Any cartographic projection of our planet is a simulation, a tool for a specific purpose.

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