Our home our Earth. The only planet that feeds us and provides us with the material for our way of life.
Here are some unknown facts about the blue planet, as per ESA and NASA.
The Earth has never had a fully round shape. Since the planet revolves around its Axis, it bulges around the Equator by an additional 0.3 per cent.
The length of a day on Earth is increasing. A day was roughly 6 hours long when Earth was formed. Today, it is about 24 hours long and it is increasing about 1.7 milliseconds every century.
The driest place in the world is the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile which is located next to the biggest body of water- The Pacific Ocean.
The Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth at rate of approximately 4 cm per year.