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__**WHY DOES THE EARTH LOOK BLUE, BROWN AND GREEN FROM SPACE?**__

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The big blue orb we live on looks like a big blue marble from space. Well a big blue marble with brown, green, and white swirls. The reason why our planet looks like giant blue marble from space is because our Earth is made up of mostly water, in fact about 70% of the Earth’s capacity is water. The rest of our Earth is made of our 7 continents, our land. This is the brown and green we see, and the reason we see these colours is because that is the actual colour of our land. Although we have forests and even mountains they aren’t big enough to be seen from space. Sometimes we see white land, this is snow, such as in the Antarctic and Antarctica. The white swirls are the clouds that are part of our planet, not outside of the atmosphere.

-Mallory.M

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