Sleepalot wrote:
Joe Egginton wrote:

Sleepalot wrote:
"peter clarke" wrote:

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/...&sd=25&sy=2007

There seems to be something seriously wrong with
the planet on those images - or is it just me?



You are looking onto the top of the planet, so that the artic is in the
centre of the photo.

Yes, so how come the image is oblate? Shouldn't it be circular?



It isn't circular because the Earth is an oblate spheroid, not a sphere.