Planet Earth or Planet Ocean?

Take a look at this fascinating data visualization of countries by their share of Earth’s surface.

There are over 510M square kilometers of area, but <30% is covered by land. Over 70% is the ocean.

Image by Nicholas LePan for Visual Capitalist. Details at https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/ #nature #science

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Soaring Over Jupiter

This striking image of Jupiter was captured on Sept. 1, 2017 by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet.

Credits: Enhanced image by Gerald Eichst&auml;dt based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.<br/><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/imagepolicy/" target="new">Media Usage Guidelines</a>

Instrument: JunoCam
Mission: Juno
Tags: Jupiter
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21966
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“If the World were 100 People”

25 are children
75 are adults (9 are 65+)

60 Asians
16 Africans
14 people from the Americas
10 Europeans

31 Christians
23 Muslims
16 people w/o religion
15 Hindus
7 Buddhists
8 other

Languages:
12 Chinese
6 Spanish
5 English
4 Hindi
3 Arabic
3 Bengali
3 Portuguese
2 Russian
2 Japanese
60 other

86 can read & write
7 have a college degree
40 have Internet
78 have shelter
91 have access to safe drinking water

Source: 100people.org based on 2016 #data