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21 meters – height of High Force waterfall in England; 30.5 meters – length of the lion's mane jellyfish, the largest jellyfish in the world; 33 meters – length of a blue whale, [127] the largest animal on earth, living or extinct, in terms of mass; 39 meters – length of a Supersaurus, the longest-known dinosaur and longest vertebrate [128]
where G is the Newtonian constant of gravitation, M ☉ is the solar mass, k is the numerical value of Gaussian gravitational constant and D is the time period of one day. [1] The Sun is constantly losing mass by radiating away energy, [ 54 ] so the orbits of the planets are steadily expanding outward from the Sun.
The oceans cover an area of 361.8 million km 2 (139.7 million sq mi) with a mean depth of 3,682 m (12,080 ft), resulting in an estimated volume of 1.332 billion km 3 (320 million cu mi). [ 194 ] If all of Earth's crustal surface were at the same elevation as a smooth sphere, the depth of the resulting world ocean would be 2.7 to 2.8 km (1.68 to ...
A metric space M is bounded if there is an r such that no pair of points in M is more than distance r apart. [b] The least such r is called the diameter of M. The space M is called precompact or totally bounded if for every r > 0 there is a finite cover of M by open balls of radius r. Every totally bounded space is bounded.
In 1958, Explorer 1, the first of the Explorer series of space missions, was launched to study the intensity of cosmic rays above the atmosphere and measure the fluctuations in this activity. This mission observed the existence of the Van Allen radiation belt (located in the inner region of Earth's magnetosphere), with the follow-up Explorer 3 ...
The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to 3.26 light-years or 206,265 astronomical units (AU), i.e. 30.9 trillion kilometres (19.2 trillion miles).
International Space Station (ISS) 1 ′ 3″ [15] the ISS has a width of about 108 m Minimum resolvable diameter by the human eye: 1 ′ [16] 0.3 meter at 1 km distance [17] For visibility of objects with smaller apparent sizes see the necessary apparent magnitudes. About 100 km on the surface of the Moon: 1 ′
Instead of using the vertical temperature gradient as the defining variable, the dynamic tropopause surface is expressed in potential vorticity units (PVU, 1 PVU = 10-6 K m 2 kg-1 s-1 [8]). Given that the absolute vorticity is positive in the Northern Hemisphere and negative in the Southern Hemisphere , the threshold value should be considered ...