The statement is false.
Earth is not a ''spaceship'', and that term is used only metaphorically in some studies about the future of the human kind, in the sense of ''can the Earth be used as a spaceship to bring us to another place'', and theorize about that. In the scientific circles, this term is not used for describing planets, including the Earth.
Things like pollution (car fumes , littering , oil spills) , the sea can affect the weather , the temperate of the earth
The equator divides south and north latitude and its locations is at 0°
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