Science

In terms of size, the Earth ranks fifth among the planets in the solar system.

Of all metals, it has the highest electrical conductivity, greater than copper.

Phobos craters are named after astronomers who contributed to the study of the moon, and characters and locations from Jonathan Swift's “Gulliver’s Travels.”

The Milky Way's closest neighbor is the Canis Major Dwarf.

The first living organism sent to space from the U.S. was a chimpanzee called Ham.

The results of the study of data provided by the Cosmic Dust Analyzer spectrometer on board the Cassini spacecraft showed that among the material fired by Enceladus' geysers, there are organic compounds that create amino acids.

The period when the moon orbits the Earth is called a sidereal month, and it lasts 27,3 days.

The Earth's atmosphere weighs approximately 5.15 trillion tons.

Most people live in the northern hemisphere.

Auroras are caused by magnetic storms in the Sun.