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Palmer Douglas: Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, feldspar crystals, diamond, crystal, the water cycle, seawater, clouds, glacier ice, volcanic gas…

Palmer Douglas: The Complete Earth: A Satellite Portrait of Our Planet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Combining the data from 18 of the most advanced Earth satellites ever built, NASA has constructed the most detailed global portrait of our planet ever created. The Complete Earth reproduces this photomap in its entirety and at full-resolution, living up to its title by revealing the whole planet, cloud-free, at a resolution of 500m to every pixel, or 90 miles to every inch. At this scale we can…