Earth Day is here again - 43 years and counting of celebration and activism to honor and protect the planet we call home.
Did you know? ...
Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour. Its orbit around the sun is nearly 600,000,000 miles. (So, we travel that distance, too, as passengers!)
In its orbit, the earth is tipped at 23.4 degrees; this axis is responsible for our seasons.
Earth is the only planet in the solar system with plate tectonics.
Breeze carries about 100 milllion tons of sand particles around the earth yearly.
About two-thirds of the earth's surface is beneath the ocean. And Google is setting out to map it ...
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HAPPY EARTH DAY 2012!
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