06. How big or small does Earth look when we see it from space? From space, does Earth look like a blueberry? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

The Earth looks more like a blue marble, with white swirls, which are the clouds and snow. It is very smooth because the highest mountains are so small compared to its overall size. If you drew a circle to represent the Earth on a big piece of paper, and made it as big as ten feet across, then Everest would still only be a bump—a tenth of an inch— not much more than the thickness of the pencil line.

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Answer provided by Derek Webber

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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