Monday, 22 August 2011

Earth

 

599px-The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17Earth is the largest of the four rocky planets.

Earth is the only planet we know with life on it. With its many oceans, lakes, rivers and ponds, two thirds of Earth are actually just water.

Sputnik 2, first satellite to observe and measure conditions in space, actually had a dog on board.

Wrapped around Earth is a layer of gases and water vapour, called atmosphere. The atmosphere allows us to breathe. It also protects us from dangerous sun rays.

Earth is the only planet that we know that we can breathe on.

2 comments:

  1. Breathing is pretty important!.. so im glad we live on Earth. Much of the earth is pretty horrid to live in being too hot, too dry, too cold etc so i'm glad we live in England. Maybe in your lifetime explorers will go to MARS and see if they can make that habitable, what do you think, could Timeglass labs have explorers to investigate??

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  2. This is very informative, Ollie. Well done. Perhaps you could add a bit about the Earth's core as it creates a magnetic field which also helps to protect us.

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