Scientists count the number of lakes on the planet

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - A group of scientists from Sweden and Estonia conducted a study through which they developed a method that enabled them to detect the number of <a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/بالصور-شاهد-أربع-أجمل-بحيرات-في-اوروبا"><strong>lakes</strong></a> around the world through satellites.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">Scientists have reached that the number of <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/بالصور-–-اجمل-10-بحيرات-في-العالم">lakes</a></strong> in the world is equivalent to 117 million lakes of different surface area and depth, with a surface area of more than 0.2 hectares in the images they captured.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">The scientific team also discovered that lakes cover 4% of the Earth&#39;s surface, without counting the Greenland and Antarctic lakes that are covered by the ice layer.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">The scientific team indicates that the length of these <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/صور-فريدة-لبحيرات-داخل-كثبان-رملية-في-البرازيل">lakes</a></strong> is 250 times greater than the length of the equator.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">It is noteworthy that this study was carried out within the framework of the &quot;Water Color&quot; project, which is devoted to studying changes in the organic matter present in water.</span></p>