>>18234610The earth is almost a perfect sphere, but not quite. The lumpy "oblate spheroid" images are exaggerated like 10,000x so that these tiny variations are visible to human eyes. The earth is about 0.003% wider longitudinally than it is latitudinally. Again, that's 0.003 percent. Perfect spheres don't exist in nature. Even marbles aren't that round and have small variations in their proportions if you look closely enough.
