We call it Earth, but only because we're land dwellers. And we rarely see this picture but it shows how massive the Pacific Ocean is, covering about a third of the Earth's surface.
This is a cloudless satellite image of the Earth, centered on the Pacific Ocean. To get a single cloudless image, NOAA satellites took photos over eleven ten-day periods and merged them.
#water
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@petergleick Hi, Peter. Are the diffrent shades of blue in different regions of the Pacific Ocean an artifact of the image compilation? Or does the ocean really appear like that?
@petergleick Reminds me of a time I was in a debate in 9th grade about the state of education in the US--I was on the "it's not good" side. I had dug up a statistic that said that something […]
@petergleick many many moons ago (ha!) I read about a satellite that was spinning around earth to sling shot out into the unknown to look at other planet. As it was going around picking up […]
@petergleick Shoutout New Zealand.
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What's bull shit is ,the map of Antarctica is totally blocked to all media. WTF are they hiding?
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I used to do this with Google Earth (truly amazing software we take for granted). The distance between islands is frankly terrifying.
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@petergleick Hawaii looks so alone!
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I find it stimulating to see the world from other perspectives and I think that should be one of the goals of education. Unfortunately, the opposite happens...
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I love our planet and wished we all did
@petergleick do we call our planet what call ground because we're land dwellers, or do we call ground what we call our planet because we're land dwellers?
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