How Many Meters of Mount Ararat Could It Be Visible Even from Istanbul?

The highest mountain in our country Mount Ararat (technically the Greater Ararat, there is also a smaller one next to it); This mountain, where folk singers want to be pigeons flying at its foot, truly offers magnificent views. Van Lake‘What, Suphan MountainIt is possible to drink tea against; The landscape looks like it was taken from fantasy books.

For everyone to see this natural beauty, Mount Ararat from all over Turkey How many meters must its height be to be visible? Let’s calculate it together.

Note: We prepared the images with artificial intelligence.

First, let’s look at how the horizon line is calculated.

in mathematics pythagoras There is a man called. He also has a famous theorem. The famous theorem “the sum of the squares of the perpendicular sides is equal to the square of the hypotenuse”, which we know from the subject of right triangles, belongs to him. We will put this in our pocket once.

Our second topic is tangent. The line we draw from the tangent that cuts a circle at a single point to the center of the circle cuts the tangent perpendicularly. angle between is 90 degrees. This gives us the ability to understand from what height we are looking from when we know the horizon line and the radius of the Earth. Because our horizon will be the short perpendicular side, the radius of the Earth will be the long perpendicular side, and the radius of the Earth + our height will give us the hypotenuse. The resulting formula is as follows:

Let’s come to the calculation:

Let’s start by writing down the information we have. Earth’s radius 6378 kmis, of course, if we are a little lazy here and consider the planet as a perfect sphere. Our furthest point from Mount Ararat is approximately 1782 km It is located in the distance. The formula for our horizon line is as follows:

When we place the numbers using this formula, we find the height we need. The height that Mount Ararat must have in order to be seen from all over Turkey is thus 244 thousand 267 meters We find it as . So it’s just over 244 kilometers long.

Moreover, at this height, the base area of ​​Mount Ararat is also More than 2.7 million square kilometers It will be too much.

Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Nakhchivan, and some of the lands of other countries in the region were all located at the foot of Mount Ararat. Moreover, let me make a short list so that it can be better remembered what kind of crazy mountain we will have:

• While on top of the mountain To the International Space Stationyou would be closer than sea level.
• On average, the air temperature increases every 1000 metres. 6.5 degrees Celsius falls. Even though it is not in a position to fall to absolute zero, after a certain point the mountain remains covered in snow and ice.
• mountain top, much faster than base Because it rotates (relative speed), snowflakes always fall from the sky on one side of the mountain, but they may not reach the ground.
• In tectonic plates There is no power to push a rock like that.
• There is no such mountain anyway. unable to carry his own weight collapses.
• Once in a while to the mountain small satellites crashing becomes a common occurrence.
• In most of Anatolia, the atmosphere becomes very thin due to altitude. human life it wouldn’t happen. In most of the places where there were, the population density would be quite low.

I Calculating Man, I reported from a row night at the foot of Mount Ararat. If there is anything else you want calculated, write it in the comments.

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