Comment on What is the average temperature of earth?
Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 months agoVolume would mean get the temperature of every m3 of earth and average them out, mass would mean the same, except before averaging you would weight(ahem) them, so a cube of air counts less than a cube of lava.
Eylrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Counting by volume would get tricky with the atmosphere. Where do you draw the line of where the atmosphere ends? Even thousands of miles from Earth there is very thin atmosphere.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Karman line?
Eylrid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s reasonable, but it means that whether you count by volume or mass the atmosphere is a negligible contribution to the average.