How many miles out to the horizon can we see? Please answer with your source.
2007-11-01 08:57:41 · 4 answers · asked by ohio756 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
horizon in miles = square root of height of eye times 1.5; for a six foot tall person on the beach it's 3 miles.
2007-11-02 08:48:29 · answer #1 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Standing on the ground with h = 1.70 m (eye-level height), the horizon is at a distance of 4.7 km.
Standing on a hill or tower of 100 m height, the horizon is at a distance of 36 km.
2007-11-01 16:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by DanE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DaNe is right....
aditionally.. and i saw this at discovery... it seems the colder the air gets the more it can bend light, so if it's like -70 celcius u can see up to 250 km ... of course this is the ideal situation, in real life u couln't do that because the landscape is somewhat elevated in the 250 km radius.
2007-11-01 16:27:48 · answer #3 · answered by Matei Stefan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your answer in km may be right but the question was in miles. NOW you need to convert km into miles.
2007-11-01 17:55:51 · answer #4 · answered by charlie e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋