File:Rising over the horizon.jpg
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English: A sequence of pictures taken at Magellan Straits, Chile, showing a tanker ship sailing towards the camera and rising over the horizon, demonstrating the Earth's curvature. Distance at first picture is about 18 km which would imply a theoretical horizon vertical drop of about 23 meters. Ship length is 186 m. |
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| current | 17:35, 11 July 2025 | 877 × 2,585 (1.32 MB) | Dropus | Uploaded while editing "Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth" on en.wikipedia.org |
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