Facts
Average orbital speed:
29.78 km/s
Distance from Sun:
149.6 million km
Mass:
5.972 × 10^24 kg
Population:
775.28 crores (2020)
Surface Temperature:
-88 to 58°C
● Earth is the only planet in our solar system that doesn’t get its name from Greek or Roman mythology.
● The word earth derives from the old english word "EORÞE". means "ground, soil, dry land."
● It takes about eight minutes for light from the sun to reach us on Earth.
● Scientists have identified about 1.2 million species of plants and animals.
● Between 25 and 40 percent of all energy captured by plants is used by humans and livestock.
● over 80 percent of known species or over 1 million are insects.
● Earth has five major oceans. They're the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans.
● There are roughly 20 million tons of gold in the ocean.
Either way, the oceans are truly Earth’s treasure.
● One liter of water contains about 13 billionths of a gram of gold.
● The atlantic ocean is home to the biggest waterfall in the world that's over 11,500 feet.
● About 71% of Earth's surface is made up of the ocean.
● 29% of Earth's surface is land, consisting of continents and islands.
● Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen.
● Earth is the only place in the solar system where water can be present in all the three states – solid, liquid and gas.
● Earth is traveling around the Sun at an average velocity of 107,182 kilometers per hour.
● Earth formed some 4.54 billion years ago.
● It is estimated that life came to existence on Earth some 4.1 billion years ago.
● More than 95% of Earth’s ocean are still unexplored.
● Moon pulls up water in oceans and even in lakes, due to its gravitational force.
● Moon is Earth’s only permanent natural satellite.
● Moon is thought to have been formed from Earth after the impact of a Mars-sized object, named Theia.
● 99% of all species that ever existed on the Earth are now extinct.
● The speed of rotation of Earth is gradually slowing down.
● The thickest of all the four layers of the earth is the mantle, which is 2900 kilometers thick.
● The thinnest of all the layers is the crust, which is on an average 30 kilometers deep.
● Tectonic plates lare floating on top of the magma inside of the Earth.
● Earth is the only planet in the solar system that has tectonic plates underneath its surface.
● When plates collide each others, earthquakes happen.
● Earth is also known as the “Blue Planet” because of its bluish appearance from the outer space.
● The first 11 km from the Earth’s surface has 75% of the atmosphere.
● The seasons on Earth are due to its tilt against the Sun.
● Earth is composed of four main layers – inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.
● Earth has an Ozone layer which protects it from Sun’s powerful and harmful UV rays.
● The hottest recorded temperature location on the Earth is in El Azizia, Libya with temperatures hitting 136 degrees F/57.8 degrees C in 1922.
● The coldest temperature location is in Antarctica with temperatures reaching -100 degrees F/-73 degrees.
● Earth is the fifth-largest planet in the solar system.
● Earth's magnetic field has weakened 10 percent since the 19th century, according to NASA.
● Every year we lose 50 million acres of rainforest And it's not good for earth.
● We only use 11% of the Earth’s surface to grow food.
● Only 1% of all the water on our Earth can be drunk. The rest is ocean water and is frozen in the Arctic.
● The Earth moves around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour.
● the temperature at the center of the Earth is the same as the temperature at the surface of the sun.
● The Earth Isn't Exactly Round
Planet Earth is shaped more like a oblate spheroid which looks like a flatter circle.
● The Earth is struck by lightning 100 times per second – that’s 8.6 million times per day!
● If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, then it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side!
● The Tallest Mountain in the World Is Not Mount Everest.
● Though it is the highest mountain in the world (at 29,029 feet above sea level), it is not the tallest. That distinction goes to Hawaii's Mauna Kea Volcano, which measures 33,476 feet from its base to its top.
● The name Earth is at least 1.000 years old.
● There are nearly 6,000 satellites circling the Earth, but only 40% are operational.
● Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean.
● Earth has 3 moons. Well the one we see in night is "The Moon" but other 2 are just orbit around the earth on same distance as The Moon.