Earth is a slightly squashed fair with a heavy metal core, and a lighter surface crust, wrapped in a thin sliver of sweet air to breathe, with vast oceans, fertile plains, magnificent mountains, fresh water rivers, streams, lakes and aquifers, orbiting a star which warms us, and gives us energy
An invisible phenomenon that diverts high energy particles coming from the Sun and other sources, allowing for a stable environment with comparatively little radiation impact on Earth
We are really lucky to be living in a thin, moist layer on a small, wet rock called Earth, which is the product of the universe's deepest workings, the result of a constant process of creation and destruction, happening all of the universe, all the time, helped by chance, the laws of the universe and random events
In the past few billion years, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, crashed into other planets, and frozen over several times, and has been ruled by all kinds of crazy life forms
Around 2.4 billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved to become the planet's first photosynthesizers, producing oxygen and making Earth's atmosphere more hospitable