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  2. Earth - Wikipedia

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    Earth's surface is continually ... The mass of the oceans is approximately 1.35 × 10 18 metric tons or about 1/4400 of Earth's total mass. The oceans cover an area ...

  3. Water distribution on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Because the oceans that cover roughly 70.8% of the area of Earth reflect blue light, Earth appears blue from space, and is often referred to as the blue planet and the Pale Blue Dot. Liquid freshwater like lakes and rivers cover about 1% of Earth's surface [5] and altogether with Earth's ice cover, Earth's surface is 75% water by area. [6]

  4. Land and water hemispheres - Wikipedia

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    By definition (assuming that the entire surface can be classified as either "land" or "ocean"), the two hemispheres do not overlap. Determinations of the hemispheres vary slightly. One determination places the centre of the land hemisphere at 47°13′N 1°32′W  /  47.217°N 1.533°W  / 47.217; -1.533 (in the city of Nantes , France

  5. Ocean - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 71% of Earth's surface, an area of some 361 million square kilometres (139.5 million square miles), is covered by ocean. The average salinity of Earth's oceans is about 35 grams of salt per kilogram of sea water (3.5%).

  6. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    Surface area of the brown dwarf CT Chamaeleontis B. 460,000 Mm 2: Area swept by the Moon's orbit of Earth 10 18: 1 square gigametre (Gm 2) 6.1 Gm 2: Surface area of the Sun [94] 10 19 30 Gm 2: Surface area of the star Vega: 10 20 100 Gm 2 10 21: 1 zetta square meter Z(m 2) 1 000 Gm 2: 10 22 11 000 Gm 2: Area swept by Mercury's orbit around the ...

  7. Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth? - AOL

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    The space rock does not remotely pose an existential threat to life on Earth. ... 70% of Earth’s surface covered by ocean, that by itself means only a 30% chance a population center will be ...

  8. Hydrosphere - Wikipedia

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    At any given time, about 2 × 10 13 tonnes of this is in the form of water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere (for practical purposes, 1 cubic metre of water weighs 1 tonne). Approximately 71% of Earth's surface, an area of some 361 million square kilometres (139.5 million square miles), is covered by ocean.

  9. An asteroid has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Here’s ...

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    And in 2013, a 20-meter-wide (66-foot-wide) asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia. ... where a surface area of (2,000 square kilometers) was devastated and 20 million ...