Earth Facts

Every day, approximately 100 tons of extraterrestrial material, mostly in the form of tiny space dust particles, enters Earth's atmosphere, contributing to our planet's ever-so-slight increase in mass.

The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

At any given moment, roughly 1,800 thunderstorms are happening somewhere on Earth, adding up to about 16 million storms per year.

The sun is 330,000 times more massive than Earth

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

The Earth travels through space at 490,000 miles per hour as it orbits around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The Earth weighs approximately 6.58 sextillion tons (6,580,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons).

In a lifetime, an average person walks the equivalent of 5 equators

When considering magnitudes logarithmically, a typical speck of dust visible floating in the air is approximately the geometric mean in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle like a proton.

It takes about eight minutes for light to travel from the Sun to Earth.

Earth's temperature increases by approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit for every 60-70 feet of depth on average, though this varies significantly based on location and geology.

The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.

More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.

41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.

A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.

The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.

Approximately 71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. However, less than one percent of this total water is readily available freshwater suitable for human consumption.

It takes approximately 8 minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth, traveling across 149.6 million kilometers of space.

If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.