What is lithosphere?

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The Lithosphere is one of the four major ways in which the outermost part of the Earth can be divided into (the others are hydrosphere, biosphere and athmosphere). It includes all the rocks and solid inorganic material that is on earth's crust and upper parts of the Mantle.

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Humans live on the surface of the earth's outer covering, which is called the lithosphere. This rocky layer, which can be up to 310 miles (500km) thick in places, includes the crust and the top part of the mantle. The lithosphere consists of seven major tectonic plates and several smaller ones.

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About how many times larger is the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy than the diameter of Saturn’s rings? (Data: Saturn’s rings a

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The diameter of the Milky Way is 3,503,974,249,104 km times larger than the diameter of Saturn's rings.

Explanation:

1 light year is the distance light can travel in one year. One light year is equal to exactly to 9,460,730,472,580.8 km.

Therefore the diameter of the milky way in distance is 9,460,730,472,580.8 x $10^{5}$ km while the diameter of Saturn rings are about 270,000km.