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Your Body Isn’t That Much Smaller Than The Whole World
Scale is kind of important when comparing two things. By some measures, one human body is way smaller than the whole Earth. But by others, like the number of bacteria on the skin’s surface versus the number of people on the planet, a person wins out.
What Life On Earth Would Look Like If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn
Every so often, when the moon is especially ginormous, or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freak out. And it’s warranted! Seeing things that don’t belong in the sky pop up, well, in the sky is fun. So could you imagine if one day Earth developed rings like Saturn? It would be insane.
Earth’s Atmosphere Is Slowly Escaping Into Space
Take a deep breath. You’re lucky to be able to. Without a handy blanket of atmosphere gases to swaddle us all, we’d be no more than a twinkle in evolution’s eye. But that wonderful blanket of gas is slowly escaping, molecule by molecule, and there’s not much we can do about it.
Why Does The Earth Have Rain Forests And Deserts?
You’d think with all the tumultuous weather and winds the Earth experiences the planet would be covered in a fairly even mix of green space. But it’s not. Some parts are covered in fertile rain forests, while others are barren deserts. And it’s all because of a weather effect known as Hadley Cells.
What Do Earth’s Mountains And Valleys Really Sound Like?
If you zoom in on the surface of a vinyl record using a microscope, it kind of looks like a series of mountains and valleys to the untrained eye. It’s actually the waveform representation of a song or other sounds, but what would happen if you took a map of the Earth’s mountains and valleys and turned that into a record? The results, of course, sound terrible.
The Earth Has Never Looked More Gorgeous From Space
NASA just released its 2012 compilation of the best views of Earth from orbit over the past year. They’re stunning. They mix “true-colour” imagery with data visualisations and 3D imagery from some of the newest satellites in NASA’s fleet.
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