Curious about what Earth's inside is like? We have got some unique and interesting facts about that.
Nisha Yadav
Well, no one has ever managed to drill Earth beyond 7.5 miles i.e. around 12km.
The Moon is not Earth's only companion
CRUITHNE & ASTEROID 2002 AA29 are companions of Earth.
Earth's GRAVITY is NOT uniform
Gravity anomaly -gravity is stronger there than it would be on a featureless perfectly smooth planet. Eg- HIMALYAS
Ironically, the driest place in the world — the Atacama Desert- next to the biggest body of water — the Pacific Ocean..
There weren't always several continents. Earth's continents have had an on-again, off-again relationship that has lasted for millions of years.
How many days are there in one year on EARTH? 365?
NO, one year on earth = 365.24 days.
That's how leap year is created every 4 years.
The days are getting longer
The days are increasing by about 1.7 milliseconds every century.
Earth is NOT perfectly round. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests that melting glaciers are causing Earth's waistline to spread.
The world's longest mountain range is UNDERWATER
MID-OCEAN RIDGE-more than 48,000 kilometers long and rises an average of 5.5 kilometers above the seafloor.
The Earth recycles itself
Earth is the only planet in our Solar System that has plate tectonics. Beneath is magma, it moves & plates crashes with each other which creates new crust.
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