protectingour planet from the sun’s strong rays.At the same time, the atmosphere helps keep the Earth’s temperature comfortable for living beings – and itprotects us from meteors, too!
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About Planet Earth, Earth Fast Facts List, Earth Size, Diameter, Shape, Universe, Origin, History, Earth Science for the Classroom
The rusty world is full of mysteries—and some of the solar system's most extreme geology. Learn more about Earth's smaller, colder neighbor.
April 22 is Earth Day. It’s a day for us to take care of it. First,we should know the earth well. It is about 4.6 billion(千亿)years old! It’s younger than the sun. The sun is about 5 billionyears old. The earth is often called “ Blue Planet(星球)”.About 70% of ...
The U.S. Supreme Court found that the publication was protected by the freedom-of-the-press clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The publication of the “Pentagon Papers” brought the Times a Pulitzer Prize in 1972, and by the early 21st century the paper had won ...
Read about the history and future of Earth’s sun as well as fun facts about the sun’s age, size, temperature, and phenomena like solar flares.
‘I wrote my first piece of code at seven’: women share highs and lows in computer science for Ada Lovelace Day Ada Lovelace was a visionary who first recognized the potential of computer programming. Almost two centuries on, six women in computer science and technology reflect on their exp...
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Facts About the Wildfire Threatening Lake Tahoe Communities More SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Facts about the wildfire threatening communities around Lake Tahoe at the California-Nevada border: — The Caldor Fire, named for the road where it started on Aug. 14 near the community of Griz...