The Earth from the Air: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Sulfur compounds such as hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide (SO 2) may be derived from natural sources or from industrial air pollution. In May 2017, glints of light, seen as twinkling from an orbiting satellite a million miles away, were found to be reflected light from ice crystals in the atmosphere. A classic of its kind, this book will heighten everyone’s awareness of today’s urgent ecological issues.

It extends from the mesopause (which separates it from the mesosphere) at an altitude of about 80 km (50 mi; 260,000 ft) up to the thermopause at an altitude range of 500–1000 km (310–620 mi; 1,600,000–3,300,000 ft). For example, on an overcast day when you cannot see your shadow, there is no direct radiation reaching you, it has all been scattered. billion years ago during the Great Oxygenation Event and its appearance is indicated by the end of the banded iron formations. Statistics play a secondary, but vital, role; the text that accompanies the shots (a paragraph each, with a short essay adorning every chapter), highlights the degree to which we have abused our Eden, providing a sobering adjunct to what can at times be mistaken for a planetary holiday brochure.Plague journals, escapist literature, political history: explore our year in review, where we share rare book trends and a gallery of some of the most beautiful and interesting books sold in 2020. The tone is cautionary but never hysterical – Arthus-Bertrand wants us to find sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis but he avoids moralising or romanticising ‘wilderness’. Several layers can be distinguished in the atmosphere, based on characteristics such as temperature and composition. ISBN 0-387-98746-0 , which rounds N 2 and O 2 to four significant digits without affecting the total because 0.

Although the temperature may be −60 °C (−76 °F; 210 K) at the tropopause, the top of the stratosphere is much warmer, and may be near 0 °C. The geocorona visible in the far ultraviolet (caused by neutral hydrogen) extends to at least 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi). From a heart-shaped mangrove forest in New Caledonia to the Sugarloaf in Rio de Janeiro, renowned aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand presents striking colour images that present our home planet in a whole new perspective.Biography: Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a world-renowned aerial photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. For example, the Sun is approximately 6,000 K (5,730 °C; 10,340 °F), its radiation peaks near 500 nm, and is visible to the human eye. How Earth at that time maintained a climate warm enough for liquid water and life, if the early Sun put out 30% lower solar radiance than today, is a puzzle known as the " faint young Sun paradox". Atmospheric pressure is the total weight of the air above unit area at the point where the pressure is measured.