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Ist die Erde flach oder rund? Faktencheck

“Die erde ist flach”
Falsch, Erde rund
Confidence: High Checked on March 11, 2026

Summary

Die Erde ist nicht flach, sondern annähernd kugelförmig (ein leicht abgeflachtes Ellipsoid). Satellitenmessungen, geodätische Vermessungen und Beobachtungen aus dem Weltraum belegen eindeutig die Krümmung und runde Gestalt unseres Planeten.

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oceanservice.noaa.gov
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earthdata.nasa.gov
  • NASADEM Slope and Curvation Global 1 arc second V001 | NASA Earthdata

    The Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) is responsible for the archive and distribution of NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) version 1 (NASADEM_SC) dataset, which provides global slope and curvature elevation data at 1 arc second spacing.

agriculture.mo.gov
  • Land Survey | Geodetic Surveys

    Geodetic surveying techniques are ... be obtained by ordinary or plane surveying. Geodetic measurements are now being done with the use of orbiting satellites that are positioned 12,500 miles above the surface of the earth....

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • The Flat Earth Theory: is Evidence-Based Physiotherapy a Sphere? - PMC

    Citation: Maselli F. and Mourad F. The Flat Earth Theory … · Collection date 2021. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group ... 2020 A.D.; although there was a solid base under the scientific method to suggest that the Planet Earth was a globe, thousands stoke something impossible to prove: The Flat Earth Theory.

theguardian.com
  • Why the Earth is actually 100% flat | Science | The Guardian

    For example, the Earth really is flat. As in totally flat, like a sheet of glass. The definition of flat is “having a level surface; without raised areas or indentations”. So how can you have tall buildings and mountains if the Earth is flat?

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
unlv.edu
en.wikipedia.org
  • Flat Earth - Wikipedia

    Portuguese navigation down and around the coast of Africa in the latter half of the 1400s gave wide-scale observational evidence for Earth's sphericity. In these explorations, the Sun's position moved more northward the further south the explorers ...

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