2.2 km lower than Mount Everest and it's further from the Earth's center due to the equatorial bulge. That's quite a bulge.
I think of the earth as a giant gob of clay on a pottery wheel. It spins, it bulges, but ultimately it looks mostly round from a distance. 2 km lower than sea level and/or atmospheric level but higher than the dead center of this gob of clay. Silly and fun.
Is that an equatorial buldge or are you just happy to see me?
What is the atmospheric density at the summit? I couldn’t find that in the article
It'd be pretty standard 20000 ft pressure. Air pressure is generally relative to the sea level. So no different than another mountain 20000ish ft high.
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