Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole.' Now we know how it got that way - Peer2Peer

Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole.' Now we know how it got that way

Feb 16, 2026

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest beneath the frozen continent of Antarctica after accounting for Earth's rotation.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-antarctica-earth-strongest-gravity-hole.html

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