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History of Earth) Image 33Satellite time-lapse imagery of Earth's rotation showing axis tilt (from Earth) Image 34A map of heat flow from Earth's interior...

Society Technology Earth seen from Moon Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to planet Earth. This is a branch of...

the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The Solar System is an isolated single-star planetary system (not...

P:GEOLP:GEOL Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical bodies, the rocks of which they are composed, and...

P:SPACEP:SPACE Outer space, or simply space, is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies. It contains ultra-low levels of...

properties of Earth and its surrounding space environment, studied using quantitative and observational methods. It focuses primarily on Earth’s shape and...

the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth's plate boundaries...

Geological history of Earth Geology of solar terrestrial planets Crater Lake Hurricane Lili Turquoise Tornado outbreak of April 6–8, 2006 Earth Charles Robert...

combining gê 'Earth' and gráphō 'write', lit. 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of planet Earth. Geography...

highest volcano on Earth? ...that the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory was originally built to study fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field...

this area. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers, the outer lithosphere and the inner...

overall Shuttle system, accomplish a safe ascent into orbit and to return to Earth for a safe landing. Template:POTD/2007-04-10 STS-116 Photo credit: NASA...

blue wavelengths of visible light more than other wavelengths, giving the Earth’s visible edge a blue halo. At higher and higher altitudes, the atmosphere...

recreation, such as mountain climbing and skiing. The highest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest in the Himalayas of Asia, whose summit is 8,850 m (29,035 ft)...

the Earth's atmosphere at a specific place and time, typically described in terms of temperature, humidity, cloud cover, and stability. On Earth, most...

Earth science Caves Climate change Earthquakes Geology Glaciers Mountains Paleontology Rocks and Minerals Soil Meteorology Tropical Cyclones See also...

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Louis Agassiz (pictured) was the first to scientifically propose that the Earth had been subject to a past ice age? ...that Diorite is a grey to dark grey...

Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometres (860,000 miles) or 109 times that of Earth, while its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth....

water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its ocean, which covers 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, which...

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mountains, including Mount Everest, the highest point above mean sea level on Earth. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and its largest city. Nepal is a multi-ethnic...

as title (link) "Asteroid 2002 MN: Second Closest Asteroid Approach to Earth". Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2015...

326 ± 12 kilometres (1,445 ± 7 mi) in diameter; its mass is 0.28% that of the Earth and 27% greater than that of Pluto, although Pluto is slightly larger by...

about 500 years ago, is the source of the longest Quaternary lava flow on Earth? ... that the mineral motukoreaite is named for Motukorea, the island in...

conditions' can become wildly unstable (and thus destructive). Concerns about Earth-scale biosphere/geosphere dynamics is an example of the nature of problems...

 Science:  History of science    Mathematics    Chemistry    Physics    Earth sciences   edit  A panoramic view from a ridge located between Segla and...

... that the largest maars (example pictured) on Earth, found at the Alaskan volcanic field of Espenberg, formed when magma explosively interacted with...

... that more than 90 percent of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt (example pictured)? ... that the almost 50-million-year-old fossil leaves of Comptonia...

ocean contains 97% of Earth's water and is the primary component of Earth's hydrosphere, acting as a huge reservoir of heat for Earth's energy budget, as...

Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, it follows the...

(pictured) was the first who used the term "andesite line"? ...that the Earth's magnetic field is shaped roughly as a magnetic dipole, with the poles currently...

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the...

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Earth Credit: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the Moon. This translunar...

satellite of Earth. It orbits around Earth at an average distance of 384,399 kilometers (238,854 mi), a distance roughly 30 times the width of Earth. It completes...

atmosphere of the Earth is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity. The atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing...

Canadian Cordillera away from the coast resulting from magma moving in the Earth? ... that T. Rex and the Crater of Doom details the development of the hypothesis...

million dollar contract. 1938 – A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania. 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes...

appreciation for the Earth's environment. Earth Day is in the public domain and open to all persons to shape. Some grassroots Earth Day organizers seek...

radiation. More generally, astronomy studies everything that originates beyond Earth's atmosphere. Cosmology is the branch of astronomy that studies the universe...

The age of the Earth is 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%). This age is based on evidence from radiometric age dating of meteorite material...

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surface features that are similar to those on Earth, such as sand dunes and shorelines, and, like Earth, is dominated by seasonal weather patterns. With...

the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Since the water cycle is truly a "cycle," there is no beginning or end...

Because the Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbital plane, sunlight is incident at different angles at different times of the year. On Earth's surface...

dimensional surface of the earth or other bodies. The term "projection" here refers to any function defined on the earth's surface and with values on...

is 318 times more massive than Earth, with a diameter 11 times that of Earth, and with a volume 1300 times that of Earth. Its best known feature is the...

enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates, using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The Earth is not a sphere, but an irregular...

Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Similar in size and mass to Earth, Venus has no liquid water, and its atmosphere is far thicker and denser than...

became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. The three-astronaut crew — Commander Frank...

there is no older oceanic crust? ...that during hot greenhouse periods in Earth's history, the tropics appeared to be cooler than they are today? ...that...

Sub-categories of Earth Sciences: Climate change - Climatology - Earth - Earth observation satellites - Earth scientists - Ecology - Environmental science...

1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. 1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the...

A virtual globe is a 3D software model or representation of the Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move...

environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction...

the Etymologiae that the Earth was round. His meaning was ambiguous and some writers think he referred to a disc-shaped Earth; his other writings make...

Ford Motor Company incorporates. 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. 1977 – Oracle...

Day the Earth Smiled Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI This is a photo taken of Saturn and its rings, The Day the Earth Smiled. The Day the Earth Smiled...

Map of Earth Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία geōgraphía; combining gê 'Earth' and gráphō 'write', lit. 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands...

Grassland Credit: Luc Viatour Grasslands are found in most ecoregions of the Earth. Above are grasslands near Elsrickle, South Lanarkshire, Great Britain....

slightly higher than that of Mars. The surface of Mercury is similar to Earth's Moon, being cratered, with an expansive rupes system generated from thrust...

... that a world map by Gerardus Mercator attributes the Earth's magnetic field to a magnetic mountain (pictured) above the Arctic Circle? ... that a...

the Earth's atmosphere at a specific place and time, typically described in terms of temperature, humidity, cloud cover, and stability. On Earth, most...

Hydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental...

known as Earth Science, is the category of sciences relating to the planet Earth. Notable fields of this are: Geology, the study of the Earth's lithosphere...

Its mean distance from Earth is about 1.496×108 kilometres or about 8 light-minutes. The distance between the Sun and the Earth was used to define a unit...

internationally developed research facility, which is being assembled in low Earth orbit. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is scheduled...

gravity is roughly a third of Earth's or double that of the Moon. Its mean diameter, 6,779 km (4,212 mi), is about half the Earth's, or twice the Moon's, and...

is Earth's only permanent natural satellite and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the...

A transit of Earth by the Moon, as photographed by the Deep Space Climate Observatory from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point. This animation was compiled...

Credit: William Anders Earthrise, the first occasion in which humans saw the Earth seemingly rising above the surface of the Moon, taken during the Apollo...

facility in low Earth orbit. With a greater cross-sectional area than that of any previous space station, the ISS can be seen from Earth with the naked...

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Mother Earth News (ISSN: 0027-1535) is a bi-monthly American magazine that has a circulation of 475,000. It is based in Topeka, Kansas. Approaching environmental...

Globe of Earth The layout design for these subpages is at Portal:Geography/Intro/Image Layout. Add a new Introduction image to the next available subpage...

experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded by a grant from the Royal Society, it was conducted in the summer...

book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". Written largely as a thought experiment, it outlines, for...

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 American film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Directed by Roger Christian...

Programme. The spacecraft is being designed to carry three people to low Earth orbit, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and...

example, a satellite circling the earth is following an inertial path, with the path being curved by the presence of the earth. Therefore, the gravitational...

atmosphere of the Earth is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity. The atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing...

There are currently few WikiProjects relating to Earth science. Here are some: Earth Environment Geography Maps...

between the Sun and the Earth, obscuring a small part of the Sun's disc. During a transit, Venus can be seen from the Earth as a small black disc moving...

and its average depth is 3,790 meters? ...that three quarters of the earth's atmosphere lies within the troposphere, and the depth of this layer varies...

satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found...

century, new perspectives regarding the conservation of energy, age of Earth, and evolution came into focus. And in the 20th century, new discoveries...

The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from November...

satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found...

sky and creates an artificial star at an altitude of 90 km high in the Earth's mesosphere. The Laser Guide Star (LGS) is part of the VLT’s adaptive optics...

Chicxulub crater · Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event · Charles Darwin · Earth · Ediacaran biota · Geology of the Bryce Canyon area · Geology of the Capitol...

history) Template:POTD/2004-06-13 Earth at night Photo credit: NASA and NOAA Earth at night. The northernmost settlement on Earth is Alert, Ellesmere Island...

The Sun is the star at the center of Earth's Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust)...

27 March 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to orbit the earth. Yuri Gagarin joined the Soviet Air Force in 1955 and graduated with honors...

and is known as the Red Planet due to its reddish appearance as seen from Earth. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. A terrestrial planet...

and is known as the Red Planet due to its reddish appearance as seen from Earth. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. A terrestrial planet...

in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky. edit ...

a soccer field, passed the Earth at a distance of about 120,000 km. It was the second closest asteroid approach to Earth in recorded history. The asteroid...

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes Earth's magnetic field Hollow Moon Anahim hotspot Schiehallion experiment Compton–Belkovich...

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love...

Earth is the fifth-largest planet of the eight in the Solar System. It is also the largest, most massive, and densest of the Solar System's four terrestrial...

taken by the Apollo 17 crew 8 December 1992 – Galileo completes the second Earth flyby 14 December 1962 – Mariner 2 becomes the first space probe to perform...

representatives of all the animals and birds. God's flood then destroys all life on earth, but at the height of the deluge "God remembered Noah", and the waters abate...

encouraged to praise Him as the creator of Heaven and Earth. People: יהוה YHVH Places: Heaven - Earth - Zion Related Articles: Psalm 134 - Song of Ascents...

Earth's distance? ...that just over 50 kilometres above its surface, the atmosphere of Venus has very similar pressure and temperature as does Earth,...

Psalm 96 All the people of Earth, and indeed the Earth itself sing praises of YHVH above all other gods. People: יהוה YHVH Related Articles: Psalm 96...

naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded...

Thor-Able launches Explorer 6, the first satellite to transmit images of Earth back from orbit. 1967 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite. 1968...

cyclones, are a group of cyclones that occur in the middle latitudes of the Earth, and which have neither tropical nor polar characteristics. They are connected...

Credit: The Apollo 17 crew "The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of Earth. NASA officially credits the image to the entire Apollo 17 crew — Eugene...

for salvation and for the bountiful creation of Earth. People: David - יהוה YHVH God Places: Zion - Earth Related Articles: Psalm 65 - Vow English Text:...

Psalm 24 David sings that the earth and everything in it is God's, and those who seek the King of glory will dwell with Him. People: David - יהוה YHVH...

return to Earth in two years time. This is the first sample return mission to a comet and the first time that samples have returned to Earth from any celestial...

recorded on Mercury? ...that 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space debris? ...that 17th century philosopher...

This is about 332,950 times the mass of the Earth or 1,048 times the mass of Jupiter. Because the Earth follows an elliptical orbit around the Sun, the...

27 March 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first human to orbit the earth. Yuri Gagarin joined the Soviet Air Force in 1955 and graduated with honors...

Creationism is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in some form by a supernatural being or beings. However...

of Earth, the Sun emits shortwave radiation (sunlight) that passes through greenhouse gases to heat the Earth's surface. In response, the Earth's surface...

Sun, will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth's distance? ...that NASA engineer Harvey Allen's "Blunt Body Theory" made...

first close-up images of Jupiter. December 4, 1959 - A monkey returns to Earth safely, after being launched 55 miles high into outer space by the United...

languages of Arda in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, it was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth in the Third Age. It was the language...

internationally developed research facility, which is being assembled in low Earth orbit. On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is scheduled...

such as Earth. Unlike other gases, greenhouse gases absorb the radiations that a planet emits, resulting in the greenhouse effect. The Earth is warmed...

ejection directly toward the Earth, the third largest solar flare on record. The effects are projected to affect Earth on the 29th. Wildfires are largest...

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wicked prosper on Earth, they will be judged by God and that those who are righteous, meek, and trust in God will inherit the Earth. People: David - יהוה...

history watch First near-Earth object to be given a positive rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for potential Earth collision is (89959)...

regulated by the water cycle, the processes by which water moves around the Earth. Water first enters rivers through precipitation, whether from rainfall...

perfectly circular) of the eight planets. It orbits the Sun once in about 88 Earth days, completing three rotations about its axis for every two orbits. The...

Credit: William Anders "Earthrise," the first occasion in which humans saw the Earth seemingly rising above the surface of the Moon, taken during the Apollo...

retreat of glaciers 9,000 years ago? ... that in the early history of the Earth's crust, the dichotomy between oceanic crust and elevated continental crust...

Photo credit: Dave Jarvis Mercury < Mars < Venus < Earth Earth < Neptune < Uranus < Saturn < Jupiter Jupiter < Wolf 359 < Sun < Sirius Sirius < Pollux...

extraterrestrial civilizations using the Jamesburg Earth Station? ... that 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space...

futures/3 The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth in 2151, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first...

solar probe that was repurposed for a mission to explore comets, approaches Earth for the first time in decades. On May 29, contact was made with the spacecraft...

was an eighteenth-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded by a grant from the Royal Society, it was conducted in the summer...

Portal:Science/Featured picture/1 Earth Credit: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling...

geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known today for his association with Charles Darwin...

paleontology has been an ongoing effort to understand the history of life on Earth by understanding the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Inevitably...

/ˈviːnəs/) is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love. It is...

Antarctica, the continent surrounding the Earth's South Pole, is the coldest place on earth and is almost entirely covered by ice. Antarctica was discovered...

The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, abbreviated BFME2, is a real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts...

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 American film adaptation of the novel Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. The film stars John Travolta...

The Kali Gandaki is the deepest gorge on Earth, dropping 1200 meters. Nepal also has the lowest valley on Earth, the Arun Valley. Nepal is the birth place...

to earth. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, and a shortage of potable water, the crew returned safely to Earth, and...

the earth forty days and forty nights." The flood covers even the highest mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet, and all creatures on Earth die;...

Studio Ghibli co-produced the third episode, "The Ghost of Laplace". The Earth Federation and ECOAS execute their assault on Palau, with the intention...

"Life" series. In 2007, Attenborough presented "Sharing Planet Earth", the first programme in a series of documentaries entitled Saving Planet Earth....

Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage. 1959 – Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit. 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash...

Pictured left: Global images of Earth from Galileo: In each frame, the continent of Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the globe. South America may...

propose a heliocentric model of the Solar System, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the...

The Sun is the star of our Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust) orbit the Sun, which...

linked to the first trees created on Planet Earth by Roog. Earth's formation began with a swamp. The Earth was not formed until long after the creation...

Runic Jēran) is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun. For an observer on the Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes...

Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. God saw that all flesh on earth had become corrupt and lawless, and God told Noah that God had decided to...

story was the first since the series' pilot episode to be set on modern-day Earth. The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan land in a strange world where insects...

curved surface of the earth or other body on a plane. The term "projection" here refers to any function defined on the earth's surface and with values...

fires one or more times to insert the vehicle-spacecraft stack into low Earth orbit. This stage also contains the vehicle's "brains", a combined inertial...

in the Earth's atmosphere as a tangent-vector field, then the hairy ball theorem implies that given any wind at all on the surface of the Earth, there...

advertising projects, including a giant, 1km² billboard visible from Earth? ...that some astrologers claim Earth has a second moon they call Lilith?...

Programme. The spacecraft is being designed to carry three people to low Earth orbit, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and...

awarded the Medal of Freedom. 1979 – The space station Skylab returns to Earth. 1991 – Total solar eclipse in Hawaii and Mexico. 1995 – Full diplomatic...

gas 300,000 light-years across located some 11.5 billion light-years from Earth? ... that 51 Ophiuchi has a disk of dust and gas that is likely a planetary...

km² in size. It has two mountain peaks, Pachatata (Father Earth) and Pachamama (Mother Earth), with ancient Inca and Tiwanaku ruins on top of both. The...

People Philosophy Religion Society Technology GPS Block II-F satellite in Earth orbit Geodesy (/dʒiːˈɒdɪsi/, jee-OD-iss-ee) or geodetics is the science...

and nearly colorless chemical substance. It is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans. Water is also the fluid of all known living...

funerary texts Book of Caverns Book of Gates Book of the Dead Book of the Earth Book of the Netherworld Books of Breathing Sites Abu Gorab Abu Mena Abu...

global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be called the zone of life on Earth, a closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation) and self-regulating system...

together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. A third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft...

devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his secondary world known as Middle-earth. Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the immortal Elves, called...

the earth forty days and forty nights." The flood covers even the highest mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet, and all creatures on Earth die;...

designed to collect environmental, geological, and agricultural information on Earth, is launched. 1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to...

credited Hecataeus with a work entitled Ges Periodos ("Travels round the Earth" or "World Survey"), a point-to-point coastal survey. One on Europe, is...

rendezvous is a key concept for human landing on the Moon and returning to Earth. In a LOR mission a main spacecraft and a smaller lunar module travel together...

that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God ascending...

cargo launch component of Project Constellation. Ares V will launch the Earth Departure Stage and Lunar Surface Access Module when NASA returns to the...

rods and spirals. Bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its habitats. Bacteria inhabit soil, water,...

Kennedy. 1970 - Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. 1973 - Federal Express delivers its first package. 1991 - The Dow...

full global coverage on a regular basis, they are often used for earth-mapping-, earth observation- and reconnaissance satellites, as well as some weather...

such as Earth. Unlike other gases, greenhouse gases absorb the radiations that a planet emits, resulting in the greenhouse effect. The Earth is warmed...

or mapmaking is the study and practice of making representations of the Earth on a flat surface. The discipline of cartography combines science, aesthetics...

"moons" after Earth's Moon, and each of the outer planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles. All the planets except Earth are named...

spacecraft such as satellites in orbit around Earth, but also includes space probes for flights beyond Earth orbit. Such spaceflights operate either by telerobotic...

Map of Earth...

Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda (popularly called Middle-earth). Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the immortal Elves, called...

national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo...

the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants...

after Earth's Moon) and every planet past the asteroid belt is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles. The planets other than Earth are...

Pictured left: A Map of the Earth's biomes. Open link to view detailed information. Biomes are climatically and geographically defined as similar climatic...

187 km. Unlike the earlier Soviet Vostok 1 flight, Shepard did not orbit the earth but simply went up and down which requires a less powerful rocket and simpler...

atmosphere. Multistage rockets are capable of attaining escape velocity from Earth and therefore can achieve unlimited maximum altitude. Compared with airbreathing...

(Saturday) edit history watch Earth Hour Approximately 4,000 cities around the world dimmed their building lights to commemorate Earth Hour. (MSNBC) Irish Green...

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UTC. It is the sixth asteroid to be discovered before impacting Earth. (CNN) (EarthSky) Social media use by Donald Trump After holding an impromptu online...

closest-ever recorded flyby of Earth at 3.2 million miles away. The asteroid will approach even closer at 0.0155 AU (2,320,000 km) from Earth in 2036, and is the...

Astronomy Chemistry Energy Science History of science Mathematics Technology Earth sciences These are Good articles, which meet a core set of high editorial...

in the Selected articles section of Portal:World Age of Discovery Age of Earth Almanac A Voyage Round the World Action for Climate Empowerment Aftermath...

(The Astronomer's Telegram) Asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2018 Near-Earth asteroid 2017 VR12 makes a flyby past Earth. (USA Today) Forensic anthropology Emeritus...

The Dream Chaser is designed to carry up to seven people to and from low Earth orbit. The vehicle would launch vertically on an Atlas V rocket and land...

Ralph Johnson, of Earth, Wind & Fire, turns 75. John Waite, singer, turns 71. Kirk Pengilly, of INXS, turns 68. Matt Malley, Counting Crows, turns 63...

(LOR) is a process for landing humans on the Moon and returning them to Earth. It was utilized for the Apollo program missions in the 1960s and 1970s...

Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. It tells the story of the fall of civilization from...

scientific study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental...

above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology that studies clouds is nephology. On Earth, the condensing substance...

Day - Boss's Day - Children's Day - Cinco de Mayo - Commonwealth Day - Earth Day - Father's Day - Grandparents' Day - Halloween - HumanLight - Labor...

Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth. Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the immortal Elves, called...

place in an alternate pre-history, the Third Age of Middle-earth. The lands of Middle-earth are populated by Men (humans) and other humanoid races (Hobbits...

and is rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father moments before the planet's destruction. The rocket lands on Earth, where he is found by...

- An Ariane 1 launches the Giotto probe. 1990 - Giotto flies by Earth, the first Earth encounter by a spacecraft returning from deep space. 1992 - An Atlas...

by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. EVAs may be made outside a craft orbiting Earth (a spacewalk) or on the surface...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble for his discovery of galaxies outside the...

financial transactions. 1958 - Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit. 1968 - U.S. launches Solar Explorer B, aka Explorer 37 from Wallops...

at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord...

describes the experiences of a character who travels through London as the Earth is invaded by Martians. It is said to be the first story that details a...

humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special...

directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving...

Our Dynamic Earth is a Scottish science centre and prominent conference venue and visitor attraction located in Holyrood, Edinburgh, beside the Scottish...

payloads: 300 to 2,000 kg satellites for scientific and Earth observation missions to polar and low earth orbits. The reference Vega mission is a polar orbit...

Company is incorporated. 1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. 1977 – Oracle...

its wider effects on Earth's climate system. In a broader sense, climate change also includes previous long-term changes to Earth's climate. The modern-day...

1 became the first artificial satellite launched into orbit around the Earth. October 4, 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight...

rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day. Hayes founded the Earth Day Network and expanded it to more than 180 nations. During...

the earth station. TrollSat started operations on 1 March 2007 and was officially opened on 20 January 2008. The earth station serves low Earth orbit...

the station's robotic arm to grab the cargo craft and attach it to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony node. edit  Portal:Spaceflight/Selected picture/4...

Lemnitzer from his position. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. 1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public...

1964-1965 New York World's Fair opens for its first season. 1970 - First Earth Day celebrated. 1972 - Vietnam War: Increased American bombing in Vietnam...

contributed to a rapid increase in knowledge about the history of life on Earth, and progress towards definition of the geologic time scale. As knowledge...

time, our Earth and the world of the Forgotten Realms were somehow more closely connected. As time passed, we, the inhabitants of planet Earth, have mostly...

Russ A circumpolar star is a star that, as viewed from a given latitude on Earth, never sets (that is, never disappears below the horizon), due to its proximity...

James Version) 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep...

Spaceship Earth...

the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touched..." The image accompanies a text which reads, in part, "What, then...

Image credit: Brian0918, from NASA photos Composite photo of the Sun and Earth, showing the difference in size between the two astronomical objects. Although...

Zygons plot to use their cyborg sea monster the Skarasen to take over the Earth, after they discover their home planet was destroyed. (Full article...)...

time, our Earth and the world of the Forgotten Realms were somehow more closely connected. As time passed, we, the inhabitants of planet Earth, have mostly...

Tectonic plates and movement of the earth....

Tolkien's mythos, it was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth in the Third Age. It was the language of the Sindar, those Teleri which...

(about 109 Earths), and by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass; the remainder consists of the planets (including Earth), asteroids...

The Kali Gandaki is the deepest gorge on Earth, dropping 1200 meters. Nepal also has the lowest valley on Earth, the Arun Valley. Nepal is the birth place...

agencies begin to circulate the names & addresses of over 8,000 Mother Earth magazine subscribers, targeting them for investigation. Emma Goldman also...

Credit: NASA The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble for his discovery of galaxies outside...

devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. One of the languages of Arda in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, it was spoken in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien describes the...

Science and technology Near-Earth asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon pass within 3.6 million miles (5.8 mil km) of the Earth. (BBC) Month May 2013 Previous...

the earth forty days and forty nights." The flood covers even the highest mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet, and all creatures on Earth die;...

final launch orbiting a Ferret spy satellite. 1969 - 3 cosmonauts return to Earth aboard Soyuz 4, two of whom were launched aboard Soyuz 5, moving to Soyuz...

Globe of Earth...

the change of Earth's global climate or in regional climates over time. These changes can be caused by processes internal to the Earth, external forces...

this he argued, in agreement with many other early geologists, that the Earth could not be young. He was one of the earliest proponents of what in the...

The largest religious gathering ever held on Earth in Kumbh Mela...

Geography History Politics Earth sciences Literature World...

Credit: commons:User:Hiàn The Big Nickel at Dynamic Earth in Sudbury, Ontario....

International Space Station solar panel array with the horizon of the Earth in the background...

launched May 24, 1962. The Mercury capsule was named Aurora 7 and made three earth orbits, piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. A targeting mishap during...

The Earth is destroyed at the end of the year 2150....

fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, former cop Rick Deckard (Ford) is recalled to hunt them down. Blade Runner...

R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the many fictional languages set in Middle-earth. It was the secret language of the Dwarves. Tolkien noted some similarities...

the Republican primary. (CNN) (The New York Times) Near-Earth asteroid 2007 TU24 passes Earth at a distance of 334,000 miles (537,500 km), and observations...

of Middle-earth. From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land not unlike the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth following...

little power on a 100,000 year (100 ka) timescale. Due to variations in the Earth's orbit, the amount of insolation varies with periods of around 21,000, 40...

works of J. R. R. Tolkien. One of the languages of Arda in Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, it is spoken by the Dwarves. Khuzdûl is usually written with...

that Google Earth is a visual 3D interactive atlas? that Atlas World is a directory of atlases currently in print?...

The New Earth Government legalizes no holds-barred fighting in 2291....

Mamadou Tandja. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Business Day) Live Earth, organizer of The Dow Live Earth Run for Water, Cape Town race director announced The Parlotones...

Structure of the Earth...

Earth sciences Geology Dinosaurs...

experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded by a grant from the Royal Society, it was conducted in the summer...

earth that is now known as the Van Allen radiation belt. Explorer 1 orbited for 10 years and was the forerunner of a number of successful JPL earth and...

matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth. Other stars are visible from Earth during the night, when...

Day, an American science fiction film about a hostile alien invasion of Earth 2010 - The Last Airbender, an American adventure fantasy film directed by...

civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. 1980 -...

motions. Indian and Muslim astronomers estimated its size and distance from Earth. The first telescopic observation of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in 1610...

R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the many fictional languages set in Middle-earth. It was the secret language of the dwarves. Tolkien noted some similarities...

The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, are the fundamental element of Earth-centered (geocentric) astronomies and cosmologies developed by Plato, Aristotle...

A cobalt bomb detonation incinerates the Earth in 3955....

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), renamed after its launch in honour of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, is a robotic...

technology NASA announces new data effectively rules out a 2036 Earth impact for the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis. (NASA) Sport In ice hockey, Ukrainian...

included the "Drow" series of modules, D1 - Descent into the Depths of the Earth, D2 - Shrine of the Kuo-Toa, and D3 - Vault of the Drow. (D1 and D2 were...

Goldman, Emma (1917). "Ch. 1 'Anarchism:What it really Stands For'". Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association....

at the time and not assigned a Luna number and ones which failed in low Earth orbit were usually given Cosmos designations. Estimated cost of Luna Program...

Planet Earth as seen from the surface of Mars....

fungi, bacteria and archaea. They are found in almost every ecosystem on Earth and are the most abundant type of biological entity, with millions of different...

artificial horizon, is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the airplane relative to earth. More selected pictures...

from the Earth to the Moon in 1.2 seconds? edit  Portal:Physics/Did you know/2 ... that every year, the Moon moves 3.82 cm away from Earth? ... that...

Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms have evolved since life on the planet first originated until the present day. Earth formed...

the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model with...

array of living organisms (life forms) can be found in the biosphere on Earth, and the properties common to these organisms—plants, animals, fungi, protists...

The United Powers League is founded on Earth on November 22, 2229....

the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model with...

Guide to the Galaxy, an intergalactic encyclopedia and travelogue. After Earth is destroyed in the first episode, Dent and Ford find themselves aboard...

Astronomy Chemistry Energy Science History of science Mathematics Technology Earth sciences...

R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the many fictional languages set in Middle-earth. It was the secret language of the Dwarves. Tolkien noted some similarities...

the late 1990s. In 2007 Al Gore and Richard Branson announced the Virgin Earth Challenge, offering a $25 million prize for the first viable design which...

other literary essays about an imagined world called Arda (Middle-earth), and Middle-earth. Most of these works were compiled from Tolkien's notes by his...

The Earth is destroyed in the year 3028....

launches a KH-8 spy satellite 1975 - A Delta 2910 launches the Landsat 2 Earth resources satellite 1976 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 communication...

A second nuclear holocaust destroys all life on Earth in 3782....

40,000 humans are exiled from Earth in 2309....

Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely sharp images, and...

the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth–bound telescopes. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the...

over deaths of Sacco and Vanzetti. 1954 -- Keith J. Blake born. Co-author La Côte de la Terre (The Edge of the Earth, (c) 1977) with Stephen A. Gagne...

extraterrestrial civilizations using the Jamesburg Earth Station? ... that 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space...

conceptually a geocentric model: the Earth is at the centre of the universe, the Sun and Moon and the stars revolve around the Earth, and the other five planets...

An animation of changing snow cover across the Earth over the period of a year. Snow cover is much more abundant in the Northern Hemisphere, which is...

replicant uprising, their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous or menial work on Earth's "off-world colonies". Any replicants...

Voyager 1 imaging scientists. Observations of Io by passing spacecraft and Earth-based astronomers have revealed more than 150 active volcanoes. Io's volcanism...

Province in Canada is one of the largest Proterozoic magmatic provinces on Earth and the world's largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain...

Magellan) is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179.7 million square kilometres (69.4 million...

The head of Richard M. Nixon wins the planetary election of 3000 and becomes president of Earth....

Grassland Credit: Luc Viatour Grasslands are found in most ecoregions of the Earth. Above are grasslands near Elsrickle, South Lanarkshire, Great Britain....

Dr. Robotnik seizes control in 3224 of the planet Mobius, the name of the former planet Earth....

Earth sciences Science History Medicine Systems science Technology Philosophy World...

the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. The tropical rainforests of South America contain the largest diversity of species on Earth. More selected pictures...

Events 2011 – China's unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully returns to Earth, landing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after docking twice with...

which passed very close to Earth in March of that year. It was dubbed The Great Comet of 1996; its passage near the Earth was one of the closest cometary...

King Umberto I and sentenced to seven years on Santo Stefano Island 2003 - Earth Liberation Front spray-paint concrete walls and construction equipment at...

the flag is commonly described as Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth (traditional Chinese: 青天, 白日, 滿地紅; simplified Chinese: 青天, 白日, 满地红; pinyin:...

book-length expansion of Weisman's own February 2005 Discover article "Earth Without People". Written largely as a thought experiment, it outlines, for...

in the Earth's atmosphere as a tangent-vector field, then the hairy ball theorem implies that given any wind at all on the surface of the Earth, there...

thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor...

technology A large near-Earth asteroid, 2000 EM26, passes by the Earth safely with no threat of collision at 8.8 times further from the Earth than the Moon. (NBC...

Our Dynamic Earth is a Scottish science centre and prominent conference venue and visitor attraction located in Holyrood, Edinburgh, beside the Scottish...

2005) is estimated to have a roughly one-in-forty chance of colliding with Earth in 2029. Its Torino Scale rating is 4. (Space.com) (SpaceRef.com) Month...

A race of moon dwarves searches for a route back to Earth through spiritual enlightenment during the 27th Century....

degradation is more prominent within wetland systems than any other ecosystem on Earth. International conservation efforts are being used in conjunction with the...

... that the team developing Civilization: Beyond Earth, a spiritual successor to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, visited the latter's Wikipedia article for...

Oceans cover the earth except for a few natural and man-made atolls, in 2500....

had the earth bring forth living creatures, and made man in God's image, male and female, giving man dominion over the animals and the earth, and blessed...

Treasury. (ABC News) Science and technology Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis passes close to the Earth with observations by European astronomers estimating...

the Greek τεχνητος, meaning "artificial"). Most technetium produced on Earth is a by-product of fission of uranium-235 in nuclear reactors and is extracted...

"William Penn might, with reason, boast of having brought down upon earth the Golden Age, which in all probability, never had any real existence but in...

1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe....

"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." — Richard Bach In Illusions, 1977...

Astronomy Biology Chemistry Earth sciences Ecology Engineering Environment History of science Linguistics Medicine Paleontology Philosophy Physics Psychology...

Earth sciences Tropical cyclones Water...

Melissa. "There are only 35 kinds of animal and most are really weird". BBC Earth. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018. Poulin...

15:43 UTC. After orbiting the Earth for more than two hours to test onboard systems, the Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific...

Fifty years ago, on 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 became the first artificial satellite launched into orbit around the Earth. (more...)...

one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The diameter of Jupiter is 11 times that of Earth and a tenth that of the Sun. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU...

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window. —Albert Einstein...

The Earth rises over the lunar horizon, as seen from lunar orbit during the Apollo 10 mission in 1969. Credit:NASA...

After detonating the Black Hole Bomb in 2048, Noriko Takaya and Kazumi Amano return to Earth on July 6, 14292....

Unisphere is a 12-story high, spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth. Located in Flushing Meadows Park in the Borough of Queens, New York City...

Attenborough presented "Sharing Planet Earth", the first programme in a series of documentaries entitled Saving Planet Earth. Selected biography/6          ...

Earth sciences Geography Mountains World...

1958 - Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit 1959 - Luna 1 becomes the first...

of George Tenet and the quality of US intelligence about Iraq's weapons. Earth is hit by the Halloween Solar Storm, disrupting some satellite communications...

located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky....

There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two emperors on the earth. — Confucius, Chinese Sage and Philosopher More selected quotes More quotes from Confucius...

science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity. Coverage includes issues concerning any of the Earth's ecosystems or regions, and that apply...

Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth, the second highest mountain in Pakistan and among the eight-thousanders with a summit elevation of...

1962 – As part of Project Mercury, astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. 1976 – The Judgment of Paris...

model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were a flat plane....

Earth sciences Geography Volcanoes Alps Andes Harz Lakes Rivers World...

Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are among the most common entities on Earth. Credit: Graham Beards (21 October 2008)...

surviving terrestrial globe. (from History of cartography) Image 17The Equal Earth projection (2018), an increasingly popular equal-area pseudocylindrical...

Oceania Latin America North America Caribbean Subportals Maps Countries Earth sciences Islands Related portals Energy Environment Global warming Mountains...

was the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite into orbit around the Earth. It was a small satellite designed to test the launch capabilities of the...

station ever visited by a human crew. The 100 ton space station was in Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979, and it was visited by crews three times in 1973...

Biology Chemistry Earth sciences History of science Science Ecology Marine Life...

The Blue Marble: The Earth as seen from Apollo 17....

of the Monroe County Republican Party Committee headquarters in Bloomington, Indiana are set on fire; the Earth Liberation Front claim responsibility...

astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who in the 16th century proposed that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Driven by a desire for a more perfect (i.e. circular)...

atmospheric opacity for electromagnetic radiation depending on its frequency. It shows the optic- and radio window for ground-based observatories on Earth....

Discoveries of exoplanets Rare-earth metals are discovered in KELT-9b, an exoplanet located 650 light-years away from Earth. (Astronomy Now) Month May 2019...

Earth sciences Environment Geography Geology Lakes Mountains Oceans Water Weather Wetlands World...

Size comparison of the planets Uranus on top-left, Neptune on top-right, Earth on bottom-left and Venus on bottom-right. It also consists of the white...

neutron stars. The sources of most GRBs are billions of light years away from Earth, implying that the explosions are both extremely energetic (a typical burst...

Mount Everest, the highest peak on earth, lies on the Nepal-China border...

exchanged between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. Burning fossil fuels leads to the addition of extra carbon into the cycle...

the spectral type G2V yellow star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and many other bodies (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets...

folios containing the structural outline of a series of magical initiation rituals corresponding to the spiritual elements of Earth, Air, Water and Fire?...

Science Earth sciences Weather Oceans Tornadoes Tsunamis Energy Physics World...

four times the distance from Earth to the Moon) of Earth. Toutatis is the largest known asteroid to pass this close to Earth. (Space.com) The Montreal Expos...

tribal group in the Indian state of Orissa. Khonds were known for their human sacrifices, which were intended to further the fertilization of the earth....

Job 21 Job argues that the wicked are not always punished here on Earth and that many of them live long, prosperous lives. People: Job - God Almighty...

The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth in 2151, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts...

Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. The ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, it follows the...

debt. That's the way you motivate them." Ernie Banks "Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox." Ralph...

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"Galactic Confederacy" who, 75 million years ago, brought billions of aliens to Earth in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up...

forge and puddling process. With the drilling of deep boreholes into the earth, the Chinese used not only derricks to lift brine up to the surface to be...

Hydrothermal vent Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Some Hydrothermal vents support peculiar ecosystems, based on dissolved minerals. Hydrothermal vent communities...

Backdropped by a colourful Earth, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission...

Biology Birds Earth sciences Environment Ecology Fungi Global warming Lakes Plants Rivers Water Trees...

up to twenty minutes for communications from spacecraft on Mars to reach Earth? …That the Delta II rocket (pictured) is the most reliable carrier rocket...

astronomical body is able to support life. The idea that planets beyond Earth might host life is an ancient one, though historically it was framed by...

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Ecology The Encyclopedia of Earth – Ecology The Nature Education Knowledge Project – Ecology National Geographic –...

the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that is deposited on the Earth's surface. It occurs when the atmosphere, becomes saturated with water vapour...

psalm of praise to the holy and mighty God who is known throughout all the earth. People: יהוה YHVH God Related Articles: Psalm 98 - Divine judgment English...

12 April 1981, and returned 14 April. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 36 times in this 54.5 hour mission. It was the first US manned space flight...

Psalm 95 God is proclaimed as a great King above all gods and the maker of earth and its inhabitants. People: יהוה YHVH God, God Related Articles: Psalm...

Biology Earth sciences Environment Evolutionary biology Plants Fungi Trees Water Weather Wind power Volcanoes Agriculture Global warming Science Tsunamis...

Renewable energy Wind power Nuclear technology Technology Engineering Ecology Earth sciences Physics Transport Business and economics Chemistry...

determined that GRB 970508 occurred at least 6 billion light years from Earth; this was the first measurement of the distance to a gamma-ray burst. Until...

...that Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon? ...that the trans-Planckian problem refers...

in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returns to Earth. 1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for...

Psalm 82 God is the judge of the earth and a defender of the poor and needy. People: Asaph - God Most High Related Articles: Psalm 82 - Psalms of Asaph...

payload such as satellites or space station parts into low Earth orbit, into the Earth's upper atmosphere or thermosphere. Usually, five to seven crew...

The Earth rises over the lunar horizon, as seen from lunar orbit during the Apollo 10 mission in 1969. Credit:NASA...

rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud...

1995: A pier is squatted for the first time in Brighton, England. 2003: The Earth Liberation Front burn down a 206-unit condominium being built in San Diego...

including Mount Everest. Nepal has not been occupied by any other country. The highest lake on Earth, Tilicho, is in Nepal. It rests at 4800 meters....

Psalm 97 YHVH reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof... People: The Lord יהוה YHVH God Related Articles: Psalm 97...

Psalm 148 A call to all living beings on Earth, angels in heaven, and even the sun, moon and stars to join in praising YHVH. People: Lord יהוה YHVH Related...

Telescope. Although the galaxy is at a distance of 6.5 million light years from Earth, the HST’s Advanced Camera for Surveys reveals individual stars in the outer...

during a rocket flight and is one of the strongest X-ray sources seen from Earth, producing a peak X-ray flux density of 2.3×10−23 Wm−2Hz−1 (2.3×103 Jansky)...

spacecraft. Komarov was killed when the spacecraft crashed during its return to Earth after a mission beset with mechanical problems. This was the first in-flight...

they are considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth. Upon completion, temples are usually open to the public for a short period...

Swedish mining company LKAB discovers Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements in Kiruna, Sweden. (Reuters) The World Meteorological Organization...

approaches to Earth in 2018 As predicted, asteroid 2018 CB, estimated to be between 15 and 40 metres (50–130 feet) in diameter, makes a fly-by past Earth at a...

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in God are extolled as paths to happiness. People: יהוה YHVH God Places: Earth - Heaven Related Articles: Law - Mitzvah - Longevity - Peace - Mercy - Truth...

and thanks God for his blessings. God will destroy the evildoers from the Earth. People: David - יהוה YHVH Most High Related Articles: Psalm 21 - Salvation...

5907 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 39 million light years from Earth. It has an anomalously low metallicity and few detectable giant stars. The...

state of Orissa. Khonds were known for their human sacrifices, which were intended to further the fertilization of the earth. More selected pictures...

47 A psalm which praises the God of Abraham and Jacob as the King of the Earth. People: יהוה YHVH God Most High Related Articles: Psalm 47 - Korah - Jacob...

controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants." — John Boyd Orr...

Oceans cover almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth, and nearly half of the world's marine waters are over 3000 m deep. This global,...

permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. The first step is the permanent human presence in space, as with the International...

Psalm 46 A psalm of praise of God's work on Earth which reminds the reader to trust in the Lord. People: יהוה YHVH of Hosts God Most High Related Articles:...

exchanged between the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. Burning fossil fuels leads to the addition of extra carbon into the cycle...

poison of a serpent and that God will show that He is the Judge of the Earth. People: David - יהוה YHVH God Related Articles: Psalm 58 - Altaschith -...

the films Touch of Evil directed by Orson Welles and The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Heston was also known for...

Munich measure the strongest burst from a magnetar. At 21:30:26 UT the Earth is hit by a huge wave front of gamma and X-rays. It is the strongest flux...

comet visible from Earth every 75–76 years. Halley is the only known short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye from Earth, and the only naked-eye...

Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation". 1996 - Comet Hyakutake was imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous....

Psalm 147 God is praised as the master and caretaker of the Earth and universe. People: Lord יהוה YHVH God Places: Jerusalem - Israel - Zion Related Articles:...

Psalm 16 David expresses delight in the saints of the Earth. He rejoices that his soul will not be left in Sheol. People: David - יהוה YHVH Related Articles:...

the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing. 1973 – Biju Patnaik of the Pragati...

delight and better than riches, was established before the founding of the earth and leads men to God and to righteousness. People: יהוה YHVH Related Articles:...

first complete map of Iceland (pictured), based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth?...

Psalm 99 God is to be praised and exalted as the Holy King of the Earth. People: יהוה YHVH God Places: Zion Related Articles: Psalm 99 - Divine judgment...

perceived by ancient Egyptians as a star-covered nude woman arching over the earth? ... that pharaoh Psamtik III was forced to drink bull's blood to punish...

death of Jacob Le Maire, born in Antwerp, mariner who circumnavigated the Earth in 1615-1616 1660: death of André Tacquet, mathematician 1944 - German troops...

determined that GRB 970508 occurred at least 6 billion light years from Earth; this was the first measurement of the distance to a gamma-ray burst. Until...

8% of the total species of birds found in the world. The highest lake on Earth, Tilicho, is in Nepal. It rests at 4800 meters. Gautam Buddha was born in...

omitted here) Po: [209] — mass number of the most stable isotope Biology Earth sciences Mathematics Medicine Physics Science The following Wikimedia Foundation...

Psalm 8 David praises God as the creator of the heavens and earth, of the moon and the stars, and of man and beast. People: David - יהוה YHVH Related...

National Geographic Abu Dhabi 21 July 1983 – Lowest recorded temperature on Earth at South Pole, Vostok Station 30 July 2000 – Hottest temperature recorded...

"Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry." (Colossians...

clusters, and dark dust lanes. It lies about 68 million light years from Earth and can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Ursa Major...

Psalm 146 God is praised as the creator of Earth and protector of the righteous and downtrodden. People: Yah יהוה YHVH God Places: Zion Related Articles:...

Parting of the Ways", Jack becomes immortal and is stranded on 19th-century Earth. There he becomes a member of Torchwood, an organization dedicated to combating...

or cycles of works in a variety of media, narrating the life of Jesus on earth, as distinguished from the many other subjects in art showing the eternal...

he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth? Special:Permalink/985441257...

motions. Indian and Muslim astronomers estimated its size and distance from Earth. The first telescopic observation of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in 1610...

Psalm 94 God is the judge of all the Earth and knows the thoughts of man. He will cut off the wicked and sustain the righteous. People: יהוה YHVH God...

... that the Doctor Who episode "The Stolen Earth" features cameo appearances by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and comedian Paul O'Grady? Wikipedia:Recent...

in Indonesian language. The preparation includes splitting, wrapping in leaves, and then cooking in an earth oven. Photo credit: Paul (a Flickr user)....

The city of Paris, photographed from Earth orbit by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The River Seine winds its way through the center...

(about 109 Earths), and by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass; the remainder consists of the planets (including Earth), asteroids...

representing the Earth or, later, the Sun is placed in its center. It is used to demonstrate the motion of the stars around the Earth. In its simplest...

Canadarm2. The crew of Expedition 20 used the station's robotic arm to grab the cargo craft and attach it to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony node....

three lobes by lanes of dust. It lies about 9,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius. This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals...

32-episode series, set in 2068, centres on an interplanetary war between Earth and a race of Martians known as the Mysterons. Captain Scarlet, top agent...

"There is no power on Earth that can undo Pakistan." Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Founder of Pakistan)...

October 1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite 7 October 1826 – The Granite Railway (pictured), the first railroad...

Science Earth sciences Weather Oceans Tsunamis Energy Physics World Tropical cyclones Hurricanes...

and Le Mans. (BBC) China denies reports that it has banned export of rare earth mineral to the United States and Europe following similar measures against...

Eagle Nebula is a star-forming region about 7,000 light years away from Earth. This Hubble Space Telescope image, dubbed The Pillars Of Creation, reveals...

clans of "High Elves" or Eldar, the Noldor and the Vanyar, who left Middle-earth to live in Eldamar ("Elvenhome"), in Valinor, the land of the immortal and...

this area. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers, the outer lithosphere and the inner...

speaking to George Bernard Shaw " ...   You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet...

Johnny Graham, member of Earth, Wind & Fire, turns 75. Kirk Brandon, English guitarist for Theatre of Hate, Spear Of Destiny, turns 70. James Hetfield...

continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Intent on returning home to Earth to face trial for their crimes, the former crew of the USS Enterprise finds...

- Mercury-Atlas 6 launched John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth. March 2, 1978 - Vladimír Remek of Czechoslovakia becomes the first non-Soviet...

close to the Earth in March of that year. It was dubbed The Great Comet of 1996, and was one of the closest cometary approaches to the Earth in the previous...

author Rudyard Kipling died in Burwash, East Sussex. 1996: Friends of the Earth, the Council for British Archaeology, Greenpeace UK, the Royal Society for...

gaps of 101 or 121 years. They occur when Venus lies directly between the Earth and the Sun, a situation which requires both planets to be at or close to...

geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, hydrology, water resources, oceanography, earth sciences, meteorology, physical geography and other subjects. (Full article...

Asaph promotes good judgment and decries foolishness. God will judge the earth and the wicked shall drink the dregs of God's wine. People: Altaschith -...

1963 - Air Force Maj. Gordon Cooper, a former University of Hawaiʻi student, orbits the Earth 22 times in the last of the Mercury space missions....

to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February...

clans of "High Elves" or Eldar, the Noldor and the Vanyar, who left Middle-earth to live in Eldamar ("Elvenhome"), in Valinor, the land of the immortal and...

miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to...

Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth. 1965 - Ranger 8 crashes into the...

J. R. R. Tolkien, and used in his Secondary world, often called Middle-earth. Quenya is one of the many Elvish languages spoken by the immortal Elves...

for being glorious in battle and bringing judgment to the kings of the Earth. People: Asaph - יהוה YHVH God Places: Kingdom of Judah - Land of Israel...

variable star can be classifies when its apparent magnitude as seen from Earth changes over time, whether the changes are due to variations in the star's...

subaerial activity. For example, it is believed that 70 to 80% of the Earth's magma output takes place at mid-ocean ridges. (Full article...) ... that...

Birth of politician Egon Krenz, last leader of the German Democratic Republic 1945 - Adolf Hitler issues the Nero Decree, a scorched earth directive...

keyboardist and soprano saxophonist, turns 81. Philip Bailey, American singer of Earth, Wind & Fire, turns 75. Alex Van Halen, American drummer for Van Halen,...

replicant uprising, their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous or menial work on Earth's "off-world colonies". Any replicants...

...that Malta was the most heavily bombed place on earth, and that more bombs fell on Malta than on the English industrial town of Coventry?...

million dollar contract. 1938 – A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania. 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes...

Telescope. Although the galaxy is at a distance of 6.5 million light years from Earth, the HST’s Advanced Camera for Surveys reveals individual stars in the outer...

merchant, Antonia Ksaverievna Kwiatkowska (couple pictured) 1917 – Mother Earth Bulletin is published for the first time by a collective including Emma...

Eye) (The Guardian) Science and technology Asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2018 A 2–5-metre (6 ft 7 in – 16 ft 5 in) wide asteroid named 2018 LA...

warming by increasing the amount of sunlight that is reflected away from Earth and back to outer space. It is not intended to replace efforts to reduce...

expected to not only give a better appreciation of the red planet but also yield further insight into the past, and possible future of Earth. (more...)...

National Park, Estonia. Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds that form on Earth, being found in the mesosphere at altitudes of more than 70 kilometres (43 mi)...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a giant storm, larger than the Earth, which has formed Jupiter's most prominent feature for at least the last 400 years. The...

three lobes by lanes of dust. It lies about 9,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius, and can be seen in binoculars or small...

clouds typically appear delicate and wispy with white strands. In the Earth's atmosphere, cirrus are usually formed when warm, dry air rises, causing...

that less than 1% of the species that have existed on Earth are extant. Since life began on Earth, five major mass extinctions and several minor events...

submarine USS Triton completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth. 1970 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby...

impact of the cometary fragments created giant dark spots the size of the Earth on the planet's surface, which persisted for up to a year before fading...

Because it's really cool! The article mentions the solar neutrino flux at the earth is 70 billion neutrinos/(cm*sec). Since the hand is around 50 cm^2, it's...

of Mount Everest, as seen from Tibet. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level, which is 8,848...