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    Earth's Orbit: Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Mercury Mars Venus

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    Earth is the third planet from the sun and the only known planet with life. It is the fifth largest planet in the solar system and has a diameter of around 8,000 miles. Water covers 71% of Earth's surface, with most being in the oceans. Earth spins on its axis while orbiting the sun, taking 23.934 hours to complete a rotation and 365.26 days to complete an orbit. Its tilted axis causes the seasons as the hemispheres point toward and away from the sun throughout the year.

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    Earth's Orbit: Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Mercury Mars Venus

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    Earth is the third planet from the sun and the only known planet with life. It is the fifth largest planet in the solar system and has a diameter of around 8,000 miles. Water covers 71% of Earth's surface, with most being in the oceans. Earth spins on its axis while orbiting the sun, taking 23.934 hours to complete a rotation and 365.26 days to complete an orbit. Its tilted axis causes the seasons as the hemispheres point toward and away from the sun throughout the year.

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    Earth is the third planet from the sun and the only known planet with life. It is the fifth largest planet in the solar system and has a diameter of around 8,000 miles. Water covers 71% of Earth's surface, with most being in the oceans. Earth spins on its axis while orbiting the sun, taking 23.934 hours to complete a rotation and 365.26 days to complete an orbit. Its tilted axis causes the seasons as the hemispheres point toward and away from the sun throughout the year.

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    Earth's Orbit: Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Mercury Mars Venus

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    Earth is the third planet from the sun and the only known planet with life. It is the fifth largest planet in the solar system and has a diameter of around 8,000 miles. Water covers 71% of Earth's surface, with most being in the oceans. Earth spins on its axis while orbiting the sun, taking 23.934 hours to complete a rotation and 365.26 days to complete an orbit. Its tilted axis causes the seasons as the hemispheres point toward and away from the sun throughout the year.

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    Earth, our home, is the third planet from the sun.

    It's the only planet known to


    have an atmosphere containing free oxygen, oceans of water on its surface and,
    of course, life.

    Earth is the fifth largest of the planets in the solar system. It's smaller than the
    four gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — but larger than the three
    other rocky planets, Mercury, Mars and Venus.
    Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometres) and is round
    because gravity pulls matter into a ball. But, it's not perfectly round. Earth is
    really an "oblate spheroid," because its spin causes it to be squashed at its poles
    and swollen at the equator.

    Water covers roughly 71 per cent of Earth's surface, and most of that is in the
    oceans. About a fifth of Earth's atmosphere consists of oxygen, produced by
    plants. While scientists have been studying our planet for centuries, much has
    been learned in recent decades by studying pictures of Earth from space.
    Earth's orbit
    While Earth orbits the sun, the planet is simultaneously spinning on an
    imaginary line called an axis that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It
    takes Earth 23.934 hours to complete a rotation on its axis and 365.26 days to
    complete an orbit around the sun.

    Earth's axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the ecliptic plane, an imaginary


    surface through the planet's orbit around the sun. This means the Northern and
    Southern hemispheres will sometimes point toward or away from the sun
    depending on the time of year, and this changes the amount of light the
    hemispheres receive, resulting in the seasons.
    Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an oval-shaped ellipse, similar to
    the orbits of all the other planets. Our planet is a bit closer to the sun in early
    January and farther away in July, although this variation has a much smaller
    effect than the heating and cooling caused by the tilt of Earth's axis. Earth
    happens to lie within the so-called "Goldilocks zone" around the sun, where
    temperatures are just right to maintain liquid water on our planet's surface.

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