The Earth from the Air: Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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From majestic landscapes to rubbish dumps, the images are shockingly beautiful, but for Yann the most important part is the powerful environmental message which accompanies each image. In the stratosphere, starting above about 20 km, the temperature increases with height, due to heating within the ozone layer caused by the capture of significant ultraviolet radiation from the Sun by the dioxygen and ozone gas in this region. Often taken from a low altitude, they reveal the imprint of human civilization on the face of the globe. Depending on solar activity, satellites can experience noticeable atmospheric drag at altitudes as high as 700–800 km.

French aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand spent ten years making a photographic inventory of the earth's surface. The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earth from the Air is the bestselling and most popular book of aerial photography ever published. Because the Sun is close to the horizon, the Sun's rays pass through more atmosphere than normal before reaching your eye. This vibrant new edition of the internationally acclaimed original features an updated design and nearly sixty stunning new photographs. Above this altitude lies the heterosphere, which includes the exosphere and most of the thermosphere.

a b Two recent reliable sources cited here have total atmospheric compositions, including trace molecules, that exceed 100%. The Earth from the Air is the bestselling and most popular book of aerial photography ever published. Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a world-renowned aerial photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. The average mass of the atmosphere is about 5 quadrillion (5 ×10 15) tonnes or 1/1,200,000 the mass of Earth. A) Mole fraction is sometimes referred to as volume fraction; these are identical for an ideal gas only.

The geological record however shows a continuous relatively warm surface during the complete early temperature record of Earth – with the exception of one cold glacial phase about 2. By international convention, this marks the beginning of space where human travelers are considered astronauts. The Earth has changed… A new edition of this classic book, with nearly 100 new photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and seven new essays by such renowned authors as Jane Goodall, Matthieu Ricard and Oliver Blond.Main article: Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) Rough plot of Earth's atmospheric transmittance (or opacity) to various wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light. However, the atmosphere is more accurately modeled with a customized equation for each layer that takes gradients of temperature, molecular composition, solar radiation and gravity into account. It contains the ozone layer, which is the part of Earth's atmosphere that contains relatively high concentrations of that gas. Arthus-Bertrand's breathtaking, full-colour photographs are accompanied by informative captions that illuminate what we see, and describe the environmental concerns related to each location. The result of a five-year airborne odyssey across five continents and sixty countries, The Earth from the Air is the bestselling book of aerial photography ever published.