Green is Urth Redux

Jeff Wilson · 12 Jan 2011, 16:55 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:55:32 -0600
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
In-Reply-To: <698587.46844.qm at web84104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <698587.46844.qm at web84104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 1/12/2011 10:30 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
> As I thought. Therefore, the entire Lune is probably 70% green. No point, just saying.

You still can't see the *far* side from the earth, due to tide locking. 
  Geometrically, this means you can get 70% visible area greenness with 
as little as 60% coverage of the near side's surface area, or 30% of the 
total surface area.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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