Planet Earth or Planet Ocean?
Take a look at this fascinating data visualization of countries by their share of Earth’s surface.
There are over 510M square kilometers of area, but <30% is covered by land. Over 70% is the ocean.
Image by Nicholas LePan for Visual Capitalist. Details at visualcapitalist.com/countries… #nature #science
Visualizing Countries by Share of Earth’s Surface
There are over 510 million km² of area on Earth, but less than 30% of it is land. We chart countries by share of Earth's surface.Nicholas LePan (Visual Capitalist)
Albert Cardona
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Planet ocean, clearly, which relates to why the projected 1.5C increase in global average temperature doesn't have to be evenly distributed, with likely ~1C increase for the oceans but a whooping ~3C increase for the land, with catastrophic consequences:
1C * 2/3 + 3C * 1/3 = 1.66C
Made in DNA
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The Air Whisperer
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •...Nope.
BOTH of those are 'buried' under a layer of AIR.
The 'atmosphere' is invisible, so it's easy to ignore, but we are all SUBSURFACE dwellers...
#Science
#SciComm
#Atmosphere
#Aerodynamics
Rod Rhimes
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Lady Artemis
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •asia dyers
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •joe•iuculano
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The Blue Planet 😀
Brendan@TapForms 🇨🇦
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Cosmic Digressions
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •Cool graph.
I've read that the mass of all Oceans is about .02% of the planet. Though water is also common on land and inside the planet, the best name depends on our perspective.. Personally I think of "Human Home Planet", but from space a visitor would probably describe it using water.