Comment on What is the average temperature of earth?

• Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Volume 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Karman line?

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      • 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.

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• Filibuster_Rhymes@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The core is small by volume but very dense (massive) and very hot. An average temperature by mass would be much higher than an average by volume.

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