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What is the average temperature of earth?

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Sounds like a stupidly easy question to find out with a quick internet search, but it’s not.

I don’t want to know the average surface temperature, or the average ocean surface water temperature, or read another article about climate change.
But that’s all I found in the past hour.

I’d like to know the average temperature of all molecules that comprise earth, or a best guess scientific estimate.

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The mean temperature of the earth is 59°(15°C). This is from NASA Science Solar System Temperatures. I don’t know if this answers your question but I gave it a shot.

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lemmyman@lemmy.world
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This seems more like an average surface temperature than an average temperature of all the molecules comprising earth

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PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world
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I was not positive about what Mean Temperature referred to exactly. Thank you for your help.

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