The Earth from the Air: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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Tectonic activity such as subduction and faulting has shaped the crust into a variety of landscapes. Earth’s highest point is Mount Everest, Nepal, which soars 8,850 kilometers (29,035 feet) in the Himalaya Mountains in Asia. Mount Everest continues to grow every year, as subduction drives the Indo-Australian tectonic plate below the Eurasian tectonic plate. Subduction also creates Earth’s deepest point, the Mariana Trench, about 11 kilometers (6.9 miles) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The heavy Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the small Mariana plate. a b Haynes, H. M., ed. (2016–2017), CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (97thed.), CRC Press, p.14-3, ISBN 978-1-4987-5428-6 , which cites Allen's Astrophysical Quantities but includes only ten of its largest constituents. Earth is an oblate spheroid. This means it is spherical in shape, but not perfectly round. It has a slightly greater radius at the Equator, the imaginary line running horizontally around the middle of the planet. In addition to bulging in the middle, Earth’s poles are slightly flattened. The geoid describes the model shape of Earth, and is used to calculate precise surface locations.

Vázquez, M.; Hanslmeier, A. (2006). "Historical Introduction". Ultraviolet Radiation in the Solar System. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Vol.331. Springer Science & Business Media. p.17. Bibcode: 2005ASSL..331.....V. doi: 10.1007/1-4020-3730-9_1. ISBN 978-1-4020-3730-6.Viewed from Earth, the Moon is just far enough away to have almost the same apparent-sized disk as the Sun. The angular size (or solid angle) of these two bodies match because, although the Sun's diameter is about 400 times as large as the Moon's, it is also 400 times more distant. [158] This allows total and annular solar eclipses to occur on Earth. [181] St. Fleur, Nicholas (19 May 2017). "Spotting Mysterious Twinkles on Earth From a Million Miles Away". The New York Times . Retrieved 20 May 2017.

Earth from the Air is a popular collection of environmental photographs taken from the air by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. They have been published in a number of books together with text describing environmental concerns related to the photographs.States, Robert J.; Gardner, Chester S. (January 2000). "Thermal Structure of the Mesopause Region (80–105 km) at 40°N Latitude. Part I: Seasonal Variations". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 57 (1): 66–77. Bibcode: 2000JAtS...57...66S. doi: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0066:TSOTMR>2.0.CO;2. creation of «Yann Arthus-Bertrand Photo », the official entity dedicated to his photographic work. It also aims to shed light on the part of his work never before revealed, a memoire of the time when photography was considered to be a tool for providing information rather than a true artistic medium.