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~ NASA website atmosphere
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Showing posts with label atmosphere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atmosphere. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 December 2024
Earth Perspective
If Earth was an Orange the atmosphere would be the peel. The maximum extent of the Earth's atmosphere is 96km, but the earth is 12,000 km wide. Most large jet airliners cruise at about 11 to 12 km above sea level, a small fraction of the earth's atmosphere.
~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT)
If you thought there is more than 1% composition of carbon dioxide you would be wrong. Carbon dioxide comprises less than half a percent. There is more Argon in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide at roughly 1%.
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