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Winner of Sir Arthur Clarke Award for 'Best Written
Presentation', 2005
Earth
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Our
Home World
- Diameter: 7,926 miles/12,756 km
- Distance from Sun: 93 million miles/150 M km
- Length of Year: 365.24 days
- Rotation: 23 hours 56 minutes
- Gravity (x Earth's): 1!
- Axial Tilt: 23.5 degrees
- Average Temperature: 17C
| I have also produced many pictures on Earth-based interests, like volcanos and eclipses. Some of the images below can also be seen in other pages. |
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| Some of the most magnificent scenery on our planet is volcanic. Here, scientists are carrying out seismic measurements on the slopes of Mt Etna. (From The Fires Within, 1991.) |
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| No longer just the abode of penguins, Mount Erebus, in Antarctica, has now become a tourist attraction. What is left, apart from space itself! See below. (From The Fires Within, 1991) |
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| Even when one knows that it is due simply to the effect of charged particles from the Sun, trapped by Earth's magnetic field and interacting with our upper atmosphere, the aurora (Northern and Southern Lights) is one of the most magical sights of the night sky. I saw this one in Norway in 2001. | ) |
| The Great Comet of 1843, painted in oils and in a frame from the period. The Victorian period seems to have been the heyday for bright comets. |
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