Eli5, if the earth isn’t perfectly round, why does it seem that way in pictures from space?

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I’ve always asked this question but people don’t really know or just answer in ways I can’t really understand it so I was just wondering if somebody here knows why?

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The difference isn’t so great that you will notice it just by casually looking at photographs taken by space. Just like how you might draw a pretty darned good shape by hand that “looks perfect”, but when you start actually looking at it through a magnifying glass you start to see the imperfections.

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