How much do you know about the planet on which we live? Humanity made a huge step from the concept that the Earth was flat until science-based fact that the Earth is only a grain of sand among hundreds of billions of stars and planets, on the outskirts of our galaxy. If you are looking for interesting facts about the Earth then this article is for you.
1. An unusual fact is that all the planets in the Solar system besides our bear the names of Greek and Roman mythology.
2. The planet of earth appeared 4.5 billion years ago. Before the advent of life on the planet from the birth of the Earth a few thousand million years and relatively recently, in geological terms, about four million years ago there were people.
3. If the history of the Earth shrunk to 24 hours, life would've appeared at four a.m., land plants at 10:24 PM. At 11:41 PM after the terrible disaster would have been extinct dinosaurs, and human history began only at 11:58:43 PM.
4. From the astronomical point of view, Earth is the most perfect place in the cosmos for the origin and maintenance of life. Navalochnaya the Earth's orbit is in a zone with an optimum temperature for existence of liquid water, and this, according to scientists, is a prerequisite for the existence of life forms.
5. According to various estimates of scholars in our milky Way galaxy over 2 billion planets similar to Earth, it gives hope to hope, that maybe we are not alone in the infinite Universe.
6. The earth is completely spherical shape, as the earth constantly rotates it also had an impact on its form, the Earth is slightly convex at the equator and slightly flattened at the poles.
The size of the Sun and the Earth
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7. Distance from Earth to the Sun is more than 149,6 million kilometers, and the sunlight reaches the Earth in 8.3 minutes. This means that if the Sun suddenly went out, on the Ground, we'd know about it only after eight minutes.
8. If you drill a tunnel through the Earth, and then jump into it, you will need about 42 minutes to get to the other side.
9. For accurate calculations a complete revolution around the axis of our planet produces 23 hours and 56 minutes, that is actually a day shorter niches accepted 24 hours. This also applies to the duration of the year, since the revolution around the Sun lasts more than 365 days and 6 hours. That is why every four years adds another day in the calendar (29 February) and this year as a leap year.
10. Every century, the length of day is increasing by 1.7 milliseconds.
11. Earthquake near Japan 2011 increased the speed of Earth's rotation and thus shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds.
12. If we had no moon day on Earth would last no more than six hours.
The size of the Earth and the moon
quote the size of the Earth compared to the Moon
13. The earth revolves around the Sun at an average speed of more than 107 000 kilometres per hour.
14. The Earth's magnetic field has been steadily weakening over the past 180 years, which is especially observed around Brazil. If Earth had a constant strong magnetic field, all of us fried cosmic radiation and solar storms.
15. If the Sun would be the size of a ball then Jupiter would be the size of a Golf ball and the Earth would be as small as pea. In the middle of the Sun, you can put more than 1.3 million planets the size of such as Land.
16. If Earth was the size of a cue ball, its surface would be smoother than the surface the best of billiard balls.
17. According to the famous inventor from United States Raymond Kurzweil even 0.01% of the sunlight that falls on the Earth every day, able to satisfy the energy needs of the world.
18. The earth is the only place in the Solar system, where you can see a total solar Eclipse.
19. From 10 to 20 volcanoes erupting somewhere on Earth every day.
20. Almost all the time, somewhere on Earth it is possible to observe the storm. Scientists estimate that every day on our planet is raging over 750 thunderstorms.
21. Lightning in the Earth's surface fall at 100 times per second or more than 8.5 million times a day.
22. Every year, scientists discover up to half a million earthquakes a hundred thousand of them can be heard even without any special equipment. Almost every 5 days on Earth is an earthquake able to cause different levels of damage.
23. About 90% of the world's earthquakes occur along the ring of fire region in the basin of the Pacific ocean.
24. And although we all know that water is a huge part of the Earth's surface, it accounts for only 0.07% by weight and 0.4% by volume of our planet.
25. There is enough gold in Earth's core to cover it completely with a layer of more than 45 cm.
26. 40% of the earth surface belongs to the six countries of the world.
27. According to WWF (world wildlife Fund ) over the past forty years on Earth disappeared 40% of the wild nature.