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Spring in the Northern Hemisphere; Fall in the Southern Hemisphere.
by mc32 5y ago
Spring in the Northern Hemisphere; Fall in the Southern Hemisphere.
- cedricd 5y agoI was going to say that the landmasses could have been pretty different back then. But I took a quick look and it looks like they were broadly in the same place with respect to N / S hemispheres.
- CommieBobDole 5y agoYep, 65 million years ago was really not that far from the present, geologically speaking. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66 https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66
- erulabs 5y agoWow India is really headed north in a hurry.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoAnd South America and Africa were still quite close together.. the Pacific is even bigger than it is now. Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water
- yesenadam 5y ago> Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water It still looks like that today! A host of images showing it: https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&...
- robga 5y agoThe “Water Hemisphere” is 89% water. The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. The location [0] may be a little surprising. The shared view above is deceptive due to the land at the edges. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/media/File%3AHemisphere_water.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/...
- yesenadam 5y ago> The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land. Interesting. Not sure where you got that 85% figure though: >> even in the land hemisphere, the water area still slightly exceeds the land area (with 53 percent water to 47 percent land)
- robga 5y agoYou’re right. Thanks for the clarification. 85% of Earth’s land is in the Land hemisphere.
- mcherm 5y agoYes it is! Hence the mountains.
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- eatsyourtacos 5y agoUgh why does it keep turning on rotation when changing the dropdown! I'm trying to fix on a single point and move backwards in time to see the change but it keeps rotating the global every time... weird default functionality. edit: weird, now it seems to work fine. I was disabling the 'rotate global' but it wasn't taking effect before
- krick 5y agoDisplay options -> Rotate globe
- YaBomm 5y ago
- osigurdson 5y agoThe Northern Hemisphere does account for 68% of overall land area. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-hemisphere-has-the-largest-area-covered-by-land.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-hemisphere-has-the...
- askvictor 5y agoAnd perpetually tropical in the tropics
- contingencies 5y agoFall in the Southern Hemisphere. FYI we call it autumn.
- addaon 5y agoOr uɯnʇnɐ.
- gmiller123456 5y agoThat is essentially their entire point: "By contrast, many species in the Southern Hemisphere would have been preparing to hibernate for the winter as opposed to gearing up for their reproduction cycles. That may have contributed to the survival of those species—particularly mammals, certain amphibians, birds, and crocodiles—who were more likely to be sheltering in burrows or caves at the time of impact."