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[–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

The Earth's surface area is about 70% percent covered by water.

More than 95 percent of the water is in the oceans, and they make up less than 1 percent of the Earth's total volume.

If you go by mass instead of volume the fraction is even lower.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

So earth is basically barely wet, huh?

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