The Planet Earth
THE EARTH
FACTS ABOUT EARTH;
Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's the only one known for sure to have liquid water on its surface.
- Earth is not flat, but it's not perfectly round either.
- The days are getting longer.
- There weren't always several continents.
- Earth's icy times.
- The driest place on Earth.
- Earth's gravity isn't uniform.
- In the past, sea levels were very different.
- Our sun has a voracious appetite.
- Earth is the third closest planet to The Sun.
- It is the only planet we have found that contains life.
- Earth is 4.543 billion years old.
- Earth's surface is mainly water.
- Earth rotates at around 1000 miles an hour.
- Earth's atmosphere is made of gases.
- Earth isn't perfectly round.
EARTH OUR HOME:
Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun. While scientists continue to hunt for clues of life beyond Earth, our home planet remains the only place in the universe where we've ever identified living organisms.
Earth is the fifth-largest planet in the solar system. It's smaller than the four gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but larger than the three other rocky planets, Mercury, Mars and Venus.
Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) and is mostly round because gravity generally pulls matter into a ball. But the spin of our home planet causes it to be squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator, making the true shape of the Earth an "oblate spheroid."
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