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地球秘密(国外英语资料) Will a day always be 24 hours? About 1000000000 years ago, the earth had only 18 hours a day, and the rotation of the earth became slower. Todays Day is 24 hours. According to scientists, the day on the earth will be 960 hours in the distant future! 1 billion years ago, the moon was closer to the earth, when it was only 20 days a month. At present, the moon is still 4 centimeters away from the earth. What is the surface area of the earth? The surface area of the earth is 510 million 100 thousand square kilometers. Whats the size of the desert on earth? About 1/3 of the earths area is desert, and if human beings are not bound by their actions, the desertification of the earth will become even more serious. North of the Sahara desert is the largest desert in the world, is 23 times that of the United States of California Mojave desert. How high is the temperature inside the earth? Every 1 kilometers to the earth, the temperature will increase by 20 degrees Celsius, according to scientists, in the central region of the earth, the temperature is as high as 3870 degrees celsius. Is the river alive? Of course, what we call living is not the growth of life in the traditional sense, but the river has life like all living creatures. They grow slowly after birth, which means enlargement in the area of the basin, and then death as they age. How many flashes per second? Maybe you are where the blue skies, but nowhere else but in a thunderstorm, according to scientists estimated that the average per second will occur 100 times lightning, but it just hit the ground lightning. In one minute, there are more than 1000 thunderstorms around our planet, causing more than 6000 flashes of lightning, many of them only in clouds. Will rocks float in the water? People must think this is an odd question. How can rocks float? In fact, this is a fact. When a volcano erupts, the gas separated from the lava produces a rock called pumice, which has many bubbles, so they can float in