The Chimborazo volcano snatches a title to the Everest – The Universe

This was confirmed by the last measurement, with highly sophisticated equipment, the third geodesic expedition made to the elevation of Ecuador in February.

The results of measurements with centimeter accuracy of Chimborazo volcano, held within the framework of the Third French Geodesic Mission in Ecuador, they met this week at the Military Geographical Institute

to celebrate the 280th anniversary of the arrival in Ecuador of the First Mission, several French scientists and Ecuadorians.: Research Institute for Development, the Geophysical Institute of Ecuador, and the Military Geographic Institute of Ecuador measured with centimeter accuracy Chimborazo, on February 5, 2016.

the Spanish daily El País notes that for . this operation in Ecuador went to a art technology that was used to determine the altitude of Mont Blanc in France

in a computer graphics allow us to observe the differences:

the measurement results showed they concluded that the summit of Chimborazo volcano is 6.384.415,98 meters from the center of the Earth. This confirms the snow to Simon Bolivar dedicated a poem entitled “My delirium on the Chimborazo” as the most distant from the center of the Earth point.

In the classification, Huascaran in Peru, it was the second farthest point, as it is forty meters below the Ecuadorian snowed.

the use of GPS, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 10 centimeters, did win in 2001, three meters the highest mountain in Europe, Mont Blanc, measuring happened from 4807 to 4810.4 meters according to this system. Everest in Nepal, has also been measured with the GPS system. Officially has 8,848 meters, although according to this other process is a little lower, 8846.4 meters. However, Everest, which has always been listed as the highest mountain in the world, is two kilometers behind the Chimborazo in terms of distance from Earth center (6382). Earth has a greater radius in Ecuador than at the poles, which plays in favor of Chimborazo in its dispute with the honorific Everest.

With this new measurement, the Everest loses title but keeps another. Because this summit is still the highest mountain above the sea. In this sense it is situated 8,848 km. Chimborazo away and is only 6,268 km. (I)