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    I spent a few days making that map, hope you like it – "Portrait of a blue planet" [OC]
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    I spent a few days making that map, hope you like it – “Portrait of a blue planet” [OC]

    I spent a few days making that map, hope you like it – “Portrait of a blue planet” [OC]

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    1. mydriase on

      “Blue Marble, Pale Blue Dot, Blue Planet… it seems obvious: our Earth is, above all, blue. With 70.8% of its surface covered by water, this water represents only a millionth of the mass of the observable universe. Seen this way, the planet almost seems to be showing us its back, so accustomed are we to seeing it from the “continent” side, populated by billions of humans. Here, at most, only a few tens of millions of humans, but plenty of water, forming part of the vast global ocean—a complex machinery that enables life on Earth in countless ways. This is the portrait of a blue planet.”

      Data: GEBCO, NOAA

      Tools: QGIS, Adobe Illustrator

      Edit : had to resubmit my post, it was deleted yesterday (for anyone wondering why it’s showing up again)

    2. NoobMusker69 on

      Actually beautiful data? In this economy?

      It’s refreshing to see such a complex data visualization not being AI slop, thank you for that OP

    5. theobviousanswers on

      This looks exactly like 1990s Australian Geographic Magazine posters my dad would buy- beautiful!! 

    7. Acceptable-Bus5189 on

      this image is not that clear can you pleases give the PDF version of this .

    8. Nikkibraga on

      I’d love to visit Oceania one day. As someone who lives in the mountains, I can’t fathom the idea of being surrounded by endless oceans.

    9. PM_your_Nopales on

      The Caspian sea is hardly considered a lake. It’s salinity it’s brackish. It doesn’t belong in regards to any of the other freshwater lakes at all

    11. LostOnWhistleStreet on

      Wait the Nile isn’t in the 10 largest rivers by discharge? I had to double check that and it’s not even close. Funny what you assume based on other factors. Length doesn’t compensate for rainfall.

    13. YachtswithPyramids on

      Can we have a few teams of geologist confirm this maps accuracy? If so this thing is incredible

    14. FaithlessnessBig621 on

      I got the 2024 local tide chart up on a wall at home without too many complaints. I’ll be adding this one shortly…

    16. rogert2 on

      This is great! Would make a great wall poster in a kid’s bedroom or a K-12 science classroom.

    17. jeffh4 on

      Very nice! Better quality than what National Geographic would include every month in our subscription.

      One question: 550 Trillion calories carried by the Gulf Stream every second? Calories are units of energy used to denote thermal energy (heating water) or nutrition. Unless you are talking about the Gulf Stream warming up the Atlantic Ocean, I recommend using joules or kilowatt-hours.

    18. Jccali1214 on

      There’s literally a lake named “Great Slave Lake”?? Nooooo….

      And still trying to understand what is meant by the “Earth has lost its equivalent amount of water”… Like is that through evolution?

    19. nihir82 on

      Amazing work!

      I wish the large lakes were proportional to each other and not just indicating ghe shape of the lake.
      Now the smallest of the twelve is the biggest. Of course that would mean you couldn’t place them in a uniform grid as you have done. There is allways a trade off.

    22. HannahO__O on

      Which basemap did you use for qgis? Its so nice, I need to make a bathymetric map soon and the arc gis ones just aren’t pretty lol

    23. alligatorislater on

      Awesome job! I’ve gone on several long research cruises spanning different regions of the Pacific, it’s nice to see it in all its glory.

    24. Inside-Ad5469 on

      Beautiful! Now read the text and correct the mistakes – for example „Anctarctica”

    25. Inside-Ad5469 on

      Beautiful! Now read the text and correct the mistakes – for example „Anctarctica”

    26. sgrams04 on

      I love that you did rivers by mean yearly discharge instead of something like length. I feel like that speaks to their truer cyclical impact on the planet.

    27. sgrams04 on

      Is there a high res version that can be downloaded?

      Edit: Saw other similar comment below. Ignore

    29. MaybeImNaked on

      There’s an incongruency with how you’re using periods to separate both thousands and decimals.

      In the US, numbers are written like 1,000,00.00

      In Europe, numbers are written like 1.000.000,00

      You’re using periods for everything.

    31. symphwind on

      Beautiful presentation and colors! But it always makes me sad being reminded that the Aral Sea is no longer among the largest lakes on Earth. At least it’s back in the top 50 (the northern part, anyway)…