The true shape of Earth is called an oblate spheroid.

地真正形状被认为是扁形。

Vesta is round… ish, what's called an oblate spheroid, flattened a bit like a ball someone's sitting on.

灶神星是… … 扁体，有点像被人坐着。

The night's first moon, an oblate silver coin, hung well above the southern horizon.

夜晚一轮月亮，一枚扁币，高高地悬在南方地平线上。

And what we see is that it is composed of tiny little oblate structures called melanosomes.

我们看到它是由一种被称为黑色素体微小扁形结构组成。

And remember, Saturn is oblate, so as the rings formed they would've felt a gravitational tug from Saturn's equatorial bulge, centering them right over the planet's midline.

记住，土星是扁形，所以当土星环形成时候，它会受到来自土星赤道隆起引力，使之处于土星中线上。