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1 day ago · Earth, third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass. Its single most outstanding feature is that its near-surface environments are the only places in the universe known to harbour life. It is designated by the symbol ♁.
- Basic Planetary Data
Earth - Planet, Atmosphere, Geology: The mean distance of...
- The Atmosphere
Earth’s hydrosphere is a discontinuous layer of water at or...
- Planetary Differentiation
Earth - Differentiation, Formation, Structure: Once hot,...
- The Interior
Earth - Core, Mantle, Crust: More than 90 percent of Earth’s...
- Accretion, Formation, Core
Earth - Accretion, Formation, Core: As the gas making up the...
- The Outer Shell
Earth’s outermost, rigid, rocky layer is called the crust....
- Structure, Composition, Development
Earth - Structure, Composition, Development: The origin of...
- Basic Planetary Data
1 day ago · The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water and is the primary component of Earth's hydrosphere, thus the ocean is essential to life on Earth. The ocean influences climate and weather patterns, the carbon cycle , and the water cycle by acting as a huge heat reservoir .
- 3.688 km (2 mi)
- 1,370,000,000 km³ (328,680,479 cu mi) (97.5% of Earth's water)
- 361,000,000 km² (139,382,879 sq mi) (71% of Earth's surface area)
- List of countries by length of coastline
2 days ago · Bibliography. Further reading. External links. Soil. Surface-water- gley developed in glacial till in Northern Ireland. Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
4 days ago · Step 3: Enable the Terrain Layer. Now, find and check the box next to "Terrain" in the Layers section of the sidebar. Enabling the Terrain layer allows Google Earth to display elevation data. This means you’ll see the hills, valleys, and mountains in 3D, giving you a sense of the topography of the area.
1 day ago · I would like to transition to using Simplekml for styling maps but the layers in Google Earth are too cluttered with the description created for the polygons HTML pop-ups. Is it possible to export a KML map using Simplekml to Google Earth in the clean way some desktop GIS programs output the KMZs?
3 days ago · What is the name of the layer that covers the earth? 🤔 #generalknowledge
1 day ago · From Earth, it is 1 AU (1.496 × 10 8 km) or about 8 light-minutes away. Its diameter is about 1,391,400 km (864,600 mi; 4.64 LS), 109 times that of Earth. Its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, making up about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.
