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Earth is a beautiful place to live and explore. The Earth has a unique set of characteristics that makes it suitable to support life as we know it. Some of them are: correct distance from the Sun; elements to make biomolecules; availability of liquid water; magnetic field (magnetosphere); atmosphere.
Atmosphere facts: ninety-nine percent of the gases that compose the atmosphere are located below a height of 32 km (20 miles). The atmosphere comprises five layers: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere.
Interesting facts about earth, the only place in the solar system where water can be present in all the three states – solid, liquid and gas.
Among the eight planets in the Solar System, Mercury is the closest to the Sun and has a lot of significant information that can be collected. With these facts about Mercury, let’s learn more about it.
Our solar system has over 200 moons orbiting planets; the Earth’s moon is ranked fifth in size. Its radius is 1080 miles, while the largest moon, Ganymede, orbiting Jupiter, has a radius of 1635 miles.
Pluto takes 248 Earth years to revolve around the Sun. This is the longest orbit time among other planets. With these facts about Pluto (the first Kuiper Belt object to be discovered) let us learn more about it.
It is the 6th planet from the Sun and also the farthest that can be seen with the naked eye (Order of the planets from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (the dwarf planet)).
Hydrogen is a gas that naturally exists in the universe. It is the first element of the periodic table and occurs on Earth in vast quantities of water in the ocean, the ice packs, rivers and lakes. With these 57 facts about Hydrogen, let us learn more about it.
Facts about Mars, where worm like aliens have been recently spotted. Mars is less than half the diameter of Earth.
Facts about Neptune whose magnetic field is 27 times more powerful than that of the Earth. More about its moons, atmosphere, orbit, color, rings etc.