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by technogeek
Tue May 15, 2012 1:29 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: All the Water on Planet Earth (2012 May 15)
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Re: APOD: All the Water on Planet Earth (2012 May 15)

saturno2 wrote:It´s a small moon
"That's no moon... I have a bad feeling about this." <grin/>
by technogeek
Tue May 15, 2012 5:04 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: All the Water on Planet Earth (2012 May 15)
Replies: 56
Views: 324252

Re: APOD: All the Water on Planet Earth (2012 May 15)

According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, the earth's atmosphere at standard temperature and pressure comes out to roughly 3x the volume of the earth's oceans also at STP ... so put another sphere next to that one with a diameter roughly 1.7x that of the water. (Yes, scale height means the ...