If you ever wondered what the shape of the Earth is, you are not alone! For a long, long time, many people believed that the Earth was flat.

Standing closer to the equator would show a different angle on the sky than if we were to stand near the North or South Poles. The constellations lighting up the night sky take different shapes depending on where on the Earth we look from.

The same is true of the times of day when it is night in the west, it is daytime in the east. When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, there is winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Instead, because the Earth is a sphere divided into Hemispheres, we get sunlight at altering times. If we lived on a flat earth, we would all be able to see the Sun at one time. The different time zones and seasons in our world also prove that the Earth is round. Similarly, if you were to watch an ant walking on an orange, you would notice that the ant comes into and goes out of view depending on which side of the orange you face. If the Earth was flat, the entire ship would be visible as far as the eye could see. The further they go, you would notice that the bottom of the ship falls out of view faster than the top. One piece of evidence clueing us in is the way ships disappear as they sail away into the horizon. Satellite pictures, however, are not the only indications of the Earth’s shape. What does our Earth look like from outer space? The satellite pictures taken during space exploration tell us that the Earth is a blue and green orb shape.

With the invention of the telescope, we have been able to find evidence that shows that the Earth is, in fact, round. Is the Earth Flat?Have you ever wondered about the shape of Earth?īefore Galileo’s time - before we had telescopes - the Earth was believed to be flat.

Why the earth is flat