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EARTH
*PLANET EARTH*
Earth is the third planet from the sun, and the fifth largest. It
is a terrestrial planet, meaning that it is solid enough to land
on, with only one moon. Earth was not named for a Greek or
Roman god because the people who first studied the stars
and planets didn't think that Earth was a planet. "Earth" just
means ground.
If you could see our home planet from space, as the
Apollo astronauts did, you would see that Earth looks like
a big, beautiful blue marble. Earth is very round. Our
home planet is certainly one of the loveliest planets in
the solar system, but its beauty is not the only thing that
separates it from the rest of its planetary family. The
most important fact about our planet is that it is the only
planet we know that supports life in any form. Other
planets in our solar system may turn out to have life in
some form, but, at best, it will probably turn out to be
very tiny forms of life, such as microbes. However, at this
time, we can't absolutely rule out the possibility of other
planetary life in some form.
*EARTH,MOON,AND PLANETS*
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