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Earth is a terrestrial planet. It is small and rocky.Earth's atmosphere is the right thickness to keep the planet warm so living things like us can be there. It’s the only planet in our solar system we know of that supports life. It is mostly nitroge...One year on Earth lasts 365.25 days. That 0.25 extra means every four years we need to add one day to our calendar. We call it a leap day (in a leap year).Earth has just one Moon. It is the only planet to have just one moon.Earth has lots of spacecraft watching it. There is still a lot we can learn about our home planet.Earth is the third planet from the Sun in our solar system. That means Venus and Mars are Earth’s neighboring planets.We have known about our planet since ancient times, of course. But we didn’t know our place in the solar system for a long time.
This Apollo 11 picture taken by an astronaut in 1969 shows the Earth rising over the Moon. Doesn't it look small? This is a view of Earth looking just at the northern portion. A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite took this picture of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.
It is a round body that spins around in space and travels around the Sun. It has an atmosphere made up of different gases. It is a rocky planet, like Mercury, Venus, and Mars. But there is one big difference between Earth and all the other planets—Earth is the only planet in the solar system that can support life.
May 6, 2024 · Answer your questions: What is the atmosphere? How much water is on Earth? Why is the sky blue? How far away is the Moon? Everything!
Oct 4, 2017 · Earth is our home planet. Scientists think Earth formed billions of years ago. Four planets in the solar system are bigger than Earth. Three planets are smaller. It is the third-closest planet to the sun. Only Mercury and Venus are closer. Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet.”
Oct 4, 2017 · Earth is the fifth-largest planet in the solar system. Its diameter is about 8,000 miles. And Earth is the third-closest planet to the sun. Its average distance from the sun is about 93 million miles. Only Mercury and Venus are closer. Earth has been called the “Goldilocks planet.”
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the fifth largest out of all the planets of the Solar System. The continents of Earth move at the same rate as human fingernails grow. The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth.
