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By Bringing Together All the Water of the Planet in One Sphere, American Geologists Have Obtained a Ball of 1,385 Km: that Is Hardly the Distance Between Paris and Warsaw
The U.S. Geological Service (USGS) has calculated that if all the Earth's water were gathered into a single sphere, it would have a diameter of 1,385 kilometres. This visualization reveals a striking paradox: despite 71% of the Earth's surface being covered with water, this liquid mass represents only a tiny fraction of the planet's volume. More
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The U.S. Geological Service (USGS) has calculated that if all the Earth's water were gathered into a single sphere, it would have a diameter of 1,385 kilometres. This visualization reveals a striking paradox: despite 71% of the Earth's surface being covered with water, this liquid mass represents only a tiny fraction of the planet's volume. More