Look at how thin our atmosphere is: Difference between revisions

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Alexander Gerst on the #ISS Astro Gerst blog

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." [1]

June 17 - Alexander Gerst on the #ISS [2]

A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it... [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

We are just beginning to geo-monitor our thin atmosphere, earth and biosphere from space... [12] [13]

Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era... [14] [15]

We are now flying eyes-in-the-sky, earth-monitoring producing first-generation data and #sustainability realizations.

An #EarthPOV, a visual Overview that, over time, will educate and inform us...

A "paper thin" layer absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission "externalities"

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Tag: #EarthPOV; #Overview; #Troposphere; #ThinLayer

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