Graph of the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit
This graph shows the variation in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit
over the last 750,000 years. The blue line traces the eccentricity.
The orange line shows today's value for comparison. The data are from
Berger
and Loutre (1991).
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