Curiosities and lesser known things about planet Earth

Earth… Our only home, our only hope, the only planet on which - as far as we know so far - humanity can survive.

We suggest you test your knowledge by going through these curiosities about planet Earth. So here are ten fascinating things about the celestial body that we call "our home."

Planet Earth is not a perfect sphere

Usually, our planet is represented as a perfect sphere, but this is not its exact shape. The earth is flattened at the poles, so that its contour looks more like an ellipse than a circle.

As with other planets, gravity and the centrifugal force produced by the rotation around the planet's axis create the two poles (flattened) and the equator (slightly convex).

Thus, the diameter of the Earth at the equator is about 43 kilometers larger than the diameter from one pole to another.

Water covers over 70% of the Earth's surface

On Earth, water is in a solid, liquid and gaseous state. In addition, it covers three quarters of the Earth's surface in the form of swamps, lakes, rivers, seas and oceans.

The latter contain about 97% of all water on the planet.

The boundary between Earth and space is 100 kilometers above sea level

The boundary between the planet's atmosphere and space is called the Karman Line. It is located 100 kilometers above sea level.

75% of the atmospheric mass is in the first 11 kilometers of the atmosphere, measured from the surface of the sea upwards.

Planet Earth is an "iron planet"

Earth is the densest planet, ranking fifth in the Solar System in size. The most abundant chemical elements on our planet are iron (about 32%), oxygen (about 30%) and silicon (about 15%).
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The core of the Earth is composed mainly of iron. Photo: newatlas.com

Scientists believe that the Earth's core is composed mainly of iron (about 88%).

New informations about the Dead Sea Scrolls

The famous Dead Sea Scrolls continue to generate riddles, decades after their discovery. A recent study concluded that at least one different technique was used to obtain one of them than the rest, an unknown technique, unheard of to this day. The parchment that attracted the attention of researchers, one of the most important in the collection, is one with an age of almost 2.000 years, which has been remarkably well preserved, despite the conditions in which it was kept and despite its size. of the largest. Found by the Bedouins in 1956, north of the Dead Sea, it was sold to an antique dealer. He did not keep it in the best conditions, but still wrapped it in cellophane and stored it in a shoe box, hidden under the floor, according to Science Alert. The "Temple Parchment", as he is known, has survived, but is currently the thinnest of the parchments (a collection of about 900 pieces). It is only one tenth of a millimeter thick. However, it was preserved, and the material ...

Giant ring dating 30 million years found in Bosnia

Archaeologists have discovered in the Pyramid of the Sun in Bosnia a ring, of gigantic dimensions, with an age of over 30 million years. An epochal discovery was made by archaeologists who explored the Great Pyramid of the Sun in Bosnia. It is a ring, extraordinarily large. The ring, made of solid iron, was subjected to laboratory analyzes, after which it was established that it is at least 30 million years old. Specialists claim that the ring, as well as other artifacts discovered in the pyramid, date from the era of the Pannonian Sea and belonged to a mysterious civilization. This civilization, as can be seen from the size of the artifacts, was one of giants. No defining aspect of this civilization is known, nor the moment when it appeared, nor its origin, nor how it disappeared. According to local legends, millions of years ago, on the current territory of Bosnia, there was a civilization of giants. They knew many secrets of technology and had high-performance aircraft. ...

Underwater pyramids discovered in the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores islands

In 2013, a colossal underwater pyramid was discovered near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The pyramid measures 60 m high and its base has an area of 8,000 square meters. The pyramid was discovered by an amateur sailor, Diocletian Silva While he was fishing on his yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, between the island of Sao Miguel and the island of Terceira, a strange signal was intercepted by his radar and so he made the epochal discovery. Diocletian Silva considers his discovery to be a vestige of Atlantis. He also says that the pyramid is identical to those in Egypt, having a perfectly regular shape and oriented towards the cardinal points. After the discovery, the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute of the Navy tried to determine if the pyramid was made by man or is the product of natural phenomena. In October 2015, divers sent to explore the area detected two other pyramids much larger than the previous one, these having a height of 120 m in height and a base of 20,000 square meters. ...

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