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EcoEarth.Info is a portal and search engine that promotes environmental sustainability public ... · Ethical Living Blog · Explore Our Planet · Forecast Earth ...www.ecoearth.info/blog/Natural Resources and the Environment - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
The New York Times Dot Earth is a blog where Andrew Revkin reports on natural resources, the environment, climate change and sustainability.dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/About Google Earth Blog
Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, ... Google Earth Blog's office is located in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. ...www.gearthblog.com/about.htmlVirtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog
Microsoft Virtual Earth Blog on MSDN proctored by Chris Pendleton, Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist ... code samples from the Virtual Earth 3D Team's Blog. ...blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/Digital Earth Blog
The latest news on all of the top digital earth products, such as Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Nasa World Wind and WorldWide Telescope.www.digitalearthblog.com/about: the planet
Earth (pronounced ) is the third planet from the Sun, and the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather than for the planet Earth. Cf.
Home to millions of species, including humans, Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist. The planet formed 4.54 billion years ago, and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land. The physical properties of the Earth, as well as its geological history and orbit, allowed life to persist during this period. The world is expected to continue supporting life for another 1.5 billion years, after which the rising luminosity of the Sun will eliminate the biosphere.
Earth's outer surface is divided into several rigid segments, or tectonic plates, that gradually migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of the surface is covered with salt-water oceans, the remainder consisting of continents and islands; liquid water, necessary for all known life, is not known to exist on any other planet's surface.Other planets in the Solar System are either too hot or too cold to support liquid water. However, it is confirmed to have existed on the surface of Mars in the past, and may still appear today. See:
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As of 2007, water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere of only one extrasolar planet, and it is a gas giant. See: Earth's interior remains active, with a thick layer of relatively solid mantle, a liquid outer core that generates a magnetic field, and a solid iron inner core.
Earth interacts with other objects in outer space, including the Sun and the Moon. At present, Earth orbits the Sun once for every roughly 366.26 times it rotates about its axis. This length of time is a sidereal year, which is equal to 365.26 solar days.The number of solar days is one less than the number of sidereal days because the orbital motion of the Earth about the Sun results in one additional revolution of the planet about its axis. The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4° away from the perpendicular to its orbital plane, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days). Earth's only known natural satellite, the Moon, which began orbiting it about 4.53 billion years ago, provides ocean tides, stabilizes the axial tilt and gradually slows the planet's rotation. Between approximately 4.1 and 3.8 billion years ago, asteroid impacts during the Late Heavy Bombardment caused significant changes to the surface environment.

























