Category:ThinBlueLayer
- Thin Blue Layer
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is
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THE THIN BLUE LAYER
"All that stands between life on Earth and the cold, dark void of space."
- The Earth's Atmosphere
Why blue? Atmospheric gases scatter blue wavelengths of visible light more than other wavelengths, giving the Earth’s visible edge a blue halo." At higher and higher altitudes, the atmosphere becomes so thin that it essentially ceases to exist, the life protecting blue fades to black.
“The Earth's atmosphere is an extremely thin sheet of air extending from the surface of the Earth to the edge of space... the thickness of the atmosphere is about 100 km" (62 miles) - approx 80 % of the atmosphere is the Troposphere, which varies between 4 and 12 miles thick... "If the Earth were the size of a basketball, the thickness of the atmosphere could be modeled by a thin sheet of plastic wrapped around the ball."
Isn't it time to secure our environment, to focus on the horizon, to carefully study (and protect) earth's life protecting systems -- take a look at the atmosphere, a closer look
See the extent of the atmosphere, surrounding us, not many miles high, enabling life as we know it...
- Astronaut's who have seen and experienced the edge
"Earthshine"... The Space Station basking in blue Earthshine as the rising sun pierces our razor-thin atmosphere to cover the Space Station with blue light. I’ll never forget this place…seeing this makes the heart soar and the soul sing. - Astronaut Doug Wheelock
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman aboard the ISS: “I still have trouble comprehending that this impossibly thin blue curve keeps everything alive beneath it.” October 8th 2014
"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." Astronaut Gerst, 2014
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Pages in category "ThinBlueLayer"
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- C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- California is ahead of the game as Obama releases Clean Power Plan
- California out in front in a Green future
- Citizen Science
- Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms
- Climate Change Denier Talking Points -- and Rebuttals
- Climate Change Summit Paris
- Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
- Copernicus EU
- Creatively Green
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- Earth
- Earth and Space, Politics
- Earth at Night
- Earth Day
- Earth Day 2020
- Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
- Earth Day Summit - April 22 2021
- Earth from NASA
- Earth Science
- Earth Science Eco-Fields
- Earth Science Research from Space
- Earth Science Vital Signs
- EarthPOV
- Earthrise
- Earthviews
- Earthviews from Astronauts
- Eco-nomics
- Environmental full-cost accounting
- Environmental Security Organizations
- EOS eco Operating System
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- Generation Green
- Global Risks Report
- Going Green: Texas v. Pennsylvania
- GP360 NewPages
- Green Bank in Maryland - and More
- Green Futurist Literary Writers
- Green Politics 360
- Green Quotes
- Green Stories of the Day
- Green Stories of the Day - GreenPolicy360 Archive
- Greening Our Blue Planet
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2013
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2014
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2016
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2018
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2019
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2020
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2023
- GreenPolicy360 Highlights
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