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class="guide-content__top flex"> <div class="guide-content__meta flex"> <span class="count">Two 'Earth' stories</span> <span class="date">May 2023 - November 2023</span> </div> <a href="#posts" class="btn-outline">See All Stories</a> </div> <div class="feat-image-wrapper"> <div class="feat-image wide js-single-top-img"> <img src="https://spaceexplored.com/wp-content/themes/ninetofive/dist/images/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png?w=1200" class="guide-image" alt=""> </div> </div> <div class="post-body"> <p>Earth is named after the Anglo-Saxon word “erda,” which translates to ground or soil. 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Earth is also the fourth-smallest planet in our solar system and features sprawling mountain scapes, volcanoes, oceans, vast deserts, and much more.</p> <p>Humans currently inhabit this planet.</p> <h2>Important Stats</h2> <ul> <li>3rd planet from the Sun (92 million miles)</li> <li>1 moon</li> <li>7,918 miles in diameter</li> <li>23.5 degrees axis tilt</li> <li>365 day long years</li> <li>Earth gravity (9.81 m/s<sup>2</sup>)</li> <li>Average temperature of 57 degrees F</li> <li>Atmospheric makeup of mostly nitrogen with some oxygen</li> </ul> <h2>Moons</h2> <ul> <li>Moon (Luna)</li> </ul> <h2>Surface Photos</h2> <p><img data-attachment-id="6644" data-permalink="https://spaceexplored.com/earth-landscape-1/" data-orig-file="https://spaceexplored.com/wp-content/themes/ninetofive/dist/images/default-spaceexplored-related-guide.png" data-orig-size="1200,627" data-comments-opened="1" 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