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FACTS ABOUT OUR PLANET

Added on: 23rd Jun 2015

 

EVENTUALLY, OUR MAGNETIC POLES

WILL SWITCH.

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SCIENTISTS BELIEVE EARTH MAY HAVE HAD TWO MOONS

AT ONE POINT IN TIME.

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SOME SCIENTISTS CLAIM WE STILL HAVE TWO MOONS…

IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING. EVERY NOW AND THEN AN

ASTEROID WILL GET SUCKED INTO EARTH'S ORBIT AND

STICK AROUND FOR UP TO 9 MONTHS.

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ALTHOUGH EARTHQUAKES ARE NO FUN, THEY ARE NOT

THE ONLY QUAKES THAT AFFECT THE EARTH. MOON QUAKES

CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE TIDES.

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AS COOL AS MOON ROCKS ARE, ON EARTH ROCKS CAN

WALK. OR AT LEAST SLIDE. IN DEATH VALLEY ROCKS

WEIGHING HUNDREDS OF POUNDS SLIDE ACROSS THE

DESERT FLOOR LEAVING TRAILS IN THEIR WAKE.

SCIENTISTS BELIEVE WIND AND ICE ARE THE CULPRITS.

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THE LONGEST MOUNTAIN RANGE ON EARTH IS ACTUALLY

UNDERWATER. IT IS CALLED THE MID OCEAN RIDGE SYSTEM.

IT STRETCHES FOR 80,000 KM ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND

IS NEARLY 20 TIMES LONGER THAN THE LONGEST RANGE ON

THE SURFACE, THE ANDES MOUNTAINS. NOT ONLY THAT,

THE WHOLE THING IS COMPLETELY VOLCANIC.

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ON THE TOPIC OF VOLCANOS, THE MOST ACTIVE ERUPTER

ON EARTH IS ACTUALLY THE STROMBOLI VOLCANO IN

SOUTHERN ITALY. FOR THE PAST 2,000 YEARS IT HAS BEEN

ERUPTING ALMOST CONTINOUSLY WHICH HAS EARNED IT

THE NICKNAME "LIGHTHOUSE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.

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VOLCANOS AREN'T THE ONLY THINGS THAT EXPLODE GAS

AND MAGMA. LAKES DO THAT TOO. IN AFRICA, ON THE

BORDERS OF CAMEROON, RWANDA, AND THE DEMOCRACTIC

REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO THERE ARE SEVERAL LAKES THAT

SIT ABOVE VOLCANIC EARTH WHICH RESULTS IN LARGE

POCKETS OF DANGEROUS GAS BEING TRAPPED BENEATH THEM.

IF THEY WERE TO EXPLODE THEY WOULD ASPHYXIATE ANY

PASSERSBY.

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