Exploring Earth: The Beauty of Our Blue Planet

Long before the genesis of life, Earth was covered in water. Today, water vapor fills the atmosphere. Great masses of ice stretch across the planet’s poles, and beautiful, aquatic landscapes decorate its many continents. Our blue planet owes its fruitful development to this clear, inorganic solvent, but how could a single chemical substance influence the evolution of an entire planet? www.patreon.com/Koranos Sources: https://www.britannica.com/science/hydrosphere/Origin-and-evolution-of-the-hydrosphere https://astronomy.com/magazine/2019/04/where-did-earths-water-come-from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps/MYDAL2_M_SKY_WV https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/north-pole/ https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/quickfacts.html https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/glacier-ice-type-rock https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012AGUFM.C23B0649M/abstract https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/glaciers https://www.nps.gov/kefj/learn/nature/fjord-estuary-ecosystem.htm https://fjordphyto.ucsd.edu/2018/08/07/fjord-ecosystems-intro/ https://www.nature.com/articles/041539a0 https://web.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/egypt/index.html https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/estuary/ https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature/grca-geology.htm Founder / Director: Peter Schumaker Chief Editor:Tristan Reed Content Editors: Content Editors: Caroline Palmer Puschendorf, Ph.D. (Marine Biologist) Stacy W. Kish (Oceanography) Original soundtrack by Joseph McDade