(urth) Green is Urth Redux

DAVID STOCKHOFF dstockhoff at verizon.net
Wed Jan 12 09:25:22 PST 2011


I'm not sure I follow that, but what I mean is that there is no reason to think that only the near side is green.

--- On Wed, 1/12/11, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 11:55 AM
> 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.
> 



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