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And in showing you this, you know, when we're looking at this data, we're thinking, oh do these animals, do they cross the equator?
So again, here we are at that equator moment.
We thought basking sharks were temperate animals and lived in our latitudes, but in actual fact, they're obviously crossing the equator as well.
And even though Mount Chimborazo isn't the tallest mountain in the Andes, it's one degree away from the equator, it's riding that bulge, and so the summit of Chimborazo is the farthest point on Earth from the center of the Earth.
In fact, for years, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn have been steadily drifting towards the equator at the rate of about 15 meters per year, and nobody told me that.
So if you're on the equator, December or June, you've got masses of NO being released from the skin.
In summer, you might as well be at the equator.
And then we learned that there are some strains that grow optimally along the equator, where there are higher temperatures, and some that do better at the cooler temperatures as you go north and south.
So in my search to break up this monotony, I realized something: There's only about a third of the Earth's oceans that are warm, and it's really just that thin band around the equator.
AT: Well, we're on the equator, and I'm sure many of you understand that when you're on the equator, it's supposed to be in the doldrums.
The Earth is warm on the daytime side, cool on the nighttime side, and it's warmer at the equator than at the poles.
It also acts to transport heat across the equator, and the ocean is full of nutrients and it controls primary productivity.
Able to travel consistently at the incredible speed of one degree longitude around the equator per minute, the plane would take six hours to circle the world.
However, only one airport, located on the equator, has granted permission for the experiment, making it the starting point, the finish line, and the only spot where the planes can land, takeoff, or refuel on the ground.
Meeting the massive demand required more cultivation of cocoa, which can only grow near the equator.
Right now, on a perfect day at the equator, in the middle of summer on Mars, temperatures can actually reach 70 degrees, but then they go down to minus 100 at night.
If the earth didn’t rotate, air and water would simply move back and forth between low pressure at the equator and high pressure at the poles.
But as the earth spins, air moving from the equator to the North Pole is deflected eastward, and air moving back down is deflected westward.
Make it hotter and spin it faster, the equator gets bigger and bigger until it reaches a tipping point.
Push past the tipping point, and the material at the equator spreads into a disk.
The equator's speed is actually about 60 miles per hour.
And more recently you can see it's just around the equator.
Nowhere is this failure more apparent than in the warm waters on either side of our equator.
So it's like the equator or the lines of longitude.
That means I fight for ideas I believe in to have their place in the sun, regardless of which side of the equator they were born.
He knew that darkly pigmented peoples were found close to the equator; lightly pigmented peoples, like himself, were found closer to the poles.
And so when we look at a map of skin color, and predicted skin color, as we know it today, what we see is a beautiful gradient from the darkest skin pigmentations toward the equator, and the lightest ones toward the poles.
In those early days of our evolution, looking at the equator, we were bombarded by high levels of ultraviolet radiation.
It's the most tropical country in the world, a marshland on the equator.
Now, those little barbs obviously stick to the insects well, but there is something else that we can tell from this photograph, and that is that you might be able to see a fracture line across what would be the equator of this, if it was the Earth.
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