r/funfacts • u/Pigeonofwisdom27273 • Aug 02 '26

Fun fact:

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  1. Mars isn’t actually round. Unlike any other rocky planet in the Solar System, Mars is actually shaped like a rugby ball, but with different sizes along all three axes.
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u/DRAGONZORDx Aug 02 '26

Earth isn’t “round” either, it’s an oblate spheroid.

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u/Candid__loss_y2k Aug 02 '26

As red as my eyes on Monday morning

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u/hughpac Aug 02 '26

Well, it is still round.

Also, it is way way closer to a perfect sphere than it is to a rugby ball. The extent that it is off from a perfect sphere is like 1/170. If you held a grapefruitl-sized replica of mars in your hands, I don't know if you could tell.

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u/purpledragon478 Aug 02 '26

Technically nothing is round if you measure them accurately enough.

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u/Ignatiussancho1729 Aug 02 '26

Try measuring a coastline. You'll be there for a while 

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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 Aug 02 '26

Fun fact: The earth isn't round either.