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I am concerned with some recent good-faith changes to this article over the past week or so. 50-60 edits have been made in this period, primarily to the lead section. Not only has the section increased in length by over 50%, but I believe that overly technical terms have been introduced and the overall grammaticality has suffered. As it is a Featured Article, I would expect better conformance to MOS:INTRO.
The following sentence, for example, is not very grammatical:
As members of Earth's biosphere, depending on it and Earth's natural resources for survival, humans impact and exploit, as a connected world, unsustainable and degrading Earth's surface, orbits, hydrology, atmospheric processes, and endangering other life, causing mass extinction.
Compare with the same passage from before these edits:
Almost 8 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival. Humans increasingly impact Earth's surface, hydrology, atmospheric processes, and other life.
Again, I believe that these edits are being made in good faith. But I fear they risk decreasing the quality of a well-written Featured Article. Fowlerism ( talk) 17:53, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbour and support life. Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water. Furthermore Earth's surface is predominantly water, either as water ice at the polar regions, but mostly as liquid water making 71% of Earth's surface, domintated by a global Ocean, dwarfing other salt-water and freshwater bodies like lakes and rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface is land consisting of continents and islands, most of it lying in the land hemisphere. The surface altogether rests on several rigid tectonic plates of Earth's lithosphere, which migrate over many millions of years, producing magmatic and seismic activity, and are driven by a convective mantle around a solid iron inner core and a liquid outer core, which generates Earth's magnetic field, deflecting destructive solar winds and shaping Earth's magnetosphere.Earth has an atmosphere, consisting mostly of inert nitrogen, partially of reactive oxygen and in small amounts of other elements and water vapor, allowing widespread formation and systems of water clouds. Surface conditions are heavily regulated by the atmosphere; by its shielding, composition and circulation, along with the Oceanic circulation. The atmosphere, together with Earth's hydrosphere and lithosphere, is the environment that has been harbouring life on Earth, and has also been significantly shaped by life. Earth receives 1.361 kW/ m2 solar irradiance, which reaches the surface unevenly and seasonally different at different latitudes. The distribution of Earth's energy budget through its environment results in a complex climate system, producing Earth's climate and phenomena rich weather. This system, with an anthropogenically increasing average surface temperature of 14 ° C, is sensitive to topographic differences and atmospheric changes, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, causing effects like global climate change.
Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days (a year) and at a distance of about eight light minutes (an astronomical unit, AU). Earth rotates at a period of 24 hours (a day), producing night- and daytimes, and its axis of rotation being tilted with respect to Earth's orbital plane, produces seasons on Earth. Earth has one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which remained of a giant-impact with Earth during Earth's formation, having a size of a quarter of Earth's width, planetary-mass and being at an average distance of about 380,000 km (1.28 light seconds) from Earth. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the most massive and largest of the four rocky planets, being an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. Earth's gravity (9.8 m/s2 at its surface) interacts with other objects in space, tidally locking the Moon's rotation and its orbital operiod of about a month. While the Moon's gravity causes on Earth the main tides, stabilizes Earth's axial orientation and gradually slows its rotation.
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago and within the first billion years of Earth's history, the oceans and then life in it formed, first with anaerobic and then with aerobic organisms, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago and the proliferation of life, particularly since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions, life has adapted to Earth everywhere, and in its history on Earth has developed a broad biodiversity, with life today making a mere 1% of all species that have already lived on Earth. Home to humans, 8 billion people live on Earth, depending on it for survival. In Earth's current geological epoch, the Holocene, humans have been increasingly impacting Earth's environment, giving rise to the emerging Anthropocene. Today's human impact and exploitation is unsustainable and degrading for Earth's surface, orbits, hydrology, atmospheric processes, endangering other life and causing widespread extinction.
To be constructive, comparing the previous/current version with mine on HemingwayApp then there is not so much the difference in problematic sentances, but rather that I seem to have constructed the same amount of sentances but with more text. So that would mean for me to break down the content/sentances that I have provided in more sentances, choping the content into smaller easier digestable sentances. I really believe it is not fair to the readers to withhold a good overview because of a lack of effort put into puting it into better sentances. Something that I did today and was eager to do together. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:35, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 21:35, 11 January 2022 (UTC)Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the only astronomical object known to harbour and support life. Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water. Water is predmoninant on Earth's surface. At the polar regions the surface is water ice. Liquid water makes up 71% of Earth's surface. A global Ocean takes up most of the area. The Ocean dwarfs all other salt-water and freshwater bodies like lakes and rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface are continents and islands. Most of Earth's land is lying in the land hemisphere. The whole surface rests on several rigid tectonic plate. Tectonic plates migrate over many millions of years, producing magmatic and seismic activity. Cause for this activity is a convective mantle around a iron core. Earth's core generates a magnetic field. This field deflects destructive Solar winds and shapes Earth's magnetosphere.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the only astronomical object known to harbour and support life. Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water. Liquid water dominates with 71% Earth's surface. A global Ocean spans most of that area. This Ocean dwarfs all other salt-water and freshwater bodies like lakes and rivers. Water ice covers Earth's polar regions. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface are continents and islands. Most of Earth's land is lying in the land hemisphere. The whole surface rests on several rigid tectonic plates. Tectonic plates migrate over many millions of years, producing magmatic and seismic activity. Cause for this activity is a convective mantle around an iron core. Earth's core generates a magnetic field. This field deflects destructive Solar winds and shapes Earth's magnetosphere.
To reply to some points of you:
Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:10, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water, so I'm hesitant to add it. Pinging @ Clayoquot, as her prose quality is better than mine.
I tell my self that "mountain ranges" imply valleys (and in an associative way also trenches) etc., so I would say I am ready to put it into the lead as suggested ("Earth's surface layer is formed of several slowly moving tectonic plates, interacting to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes and earthquakes."). Nsae Comp ( talk) 19:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Done I took the liberty to add the sentence because everyone who commented was fine with it now. Only sentence missing if you ask me is the one about Earth being the only place with liquid surface water; see above! Nsae Comp ( talk) 19:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
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Current:
Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. More solar energy is received by tropical regions than polar regions and is redistributed by atmospheric and ocean circulation. Greenhouse gases also play an important role in regulating the surface temperature. A region's climate is not only determined by latitude, but also by elevation and proximity to moderating oceans, among other factors. Severe weather, such as tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, and heatwaves, occurs in most areas and greatly impacts life.
Proposal:
Earth has an atmosphere, consisting mostly of inert nitrogen, partially of reactive oxygen and in small amounts of other elements and water vapor, allowing widespread formation and systems of water clouds. Surface conditions are heavily regulated by the atmosphere; by its shielding, composition and circulation, along with the Oceanic circulation. The atmosphere, together with Earth's hydrosphere and lithosphere, is the environment that has been harbouring life on Earth, and has also been significantly shaped by life. Earth receives 1.361 kW/ m2 solar irradiance, which reaches the surface unevenly and seasonally different at different latitudes. The distribution of Earth's energy budget through its environment results in a complex climate system, producing Earth's climate and phenomena rich weather. This system, with an anthropogenically increasing average surface temperature of 14 ° C, is sensitive to topographic differences and atmospheric changes, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, causing effects like global climate change.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 22:01, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
To furthermore explain the logic that apllied to the other paras: Regarding the atmosphere I took the previous composition sentance and changed it to give an idea how the proportions and main characteristic are. Then I continued on mentioning one of the most important constants, leading the reader to energy budget issues and therefore climate and its complexity and change with its important reference value of globale average temperature. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
So here my shorter update, taking the above arguments in and leaving out quite a bit... though I dont know if it is well enough structured and therefore might lack crucial cornerstones/issues:
Earth's surface is covered by its atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, partly of oxygen and in smaller amounts of other components. It has been hosting surface conditions for the widespread presence of water vapor and its extensive formation of clouds, as well as for the spread of life. Earth's climate is strongly driven by the energy from the Sun reaching Earth, producing seasons which differ across the latitudes. Earth's climate is sensitive to topographic differences and atmospheric changes, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, causing effects like global climate change. Life has been shaping Earth's atmosphere over long periods of time, with humans currently changing it rapidly. Humans have lowered in the past its protective function towards space through ozone depletion and are causing a demanding increase in surface temperature from 14 ° C.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 02:35, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 00:47, 27 January 2022 (UTC)Earth's surface is covered by its atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, partly of oxygen and in smaller amounts of other components. Water vapor is widely present and is extensively forming clouds. Greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2) retain a part of the energy reaching Earth from the Sun, generating a complex climate and an average surface temperature of 14 ° C. Life has significantly shaped the atmosphere over long periods of time. More rapidly humans have been changing Earth's greenhouse gases, causing an increasing average surface temperature and the demanding climate change.Surface conditions are sensitive to atmospheric changes and can be impacted with relatively small changes.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 02:42, 27 January 2022 (UTC)Earth's surface is covered by its atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, partly of oxygen and in smaller amounts of other components. Water vapor is widely present and is extensively forming clouds. Greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2) retain a part of the energy reaching Earth from the Sun, generating a complex climate and an average surface temperature of 14 ° C. Life is significantly maintaining beneficial levels of atmospheric components, like greenhouse gases. Humans have been changing this, causing among other things an increasing average surface temperature and the demanding climate change.
ad 2) thank you (even if water vapor made sense for me to make clear that CO2 isnt the only one, but its ok) ad 3) well ok, since that sentance works best if comined with humanity's impact, and with that gone it is indeed lost. ad 1) since this is important to describe Earth imho, I have added now a references in the text. The reference speaks of clouds "dominating" the view of Earth (67%). So, somewhat longer, but less unclear, I suggest:" Water vapor is widely present and is forming clouds which cover most of the planet." Nsae Comp ( talk) 06:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Current:
Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Moon, which is Earth's only permanent natural satellite. Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days. Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane, producing seasons on Earth. The gravitational interaction between Earth and the Moon causes tides, stabilizes Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets.
Proposal:
Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days (a year) and at a distance of about eight light minutes (an astronomical unit, AU). Earth rotates at a period of 24 hours (a day), producing night- and daytimes, and its axis of rotation being tilted with respect to Earth's orbital plane, produces seasons on Earth. Earth has one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which remained of a giant-impact with Earth during Earth's formation, having a size of a quarter of Earth's width, planetary-mass and being at an average distance of about 380,000 km (1.28 light seconds) from Earth. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the most massive and largest of the four rocky planets, being an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. Earth's gravity (9.8 m/s2 at its surface) interacts with other objects in space, tidally locking the Moon's rotation and its orbital operiod of about a month. While the Moon's gravity causes on Earth the main tides, stabilizes Earth's axial orientation and gradually slows its rotation.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 22:03, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
The third para I rearranged to move orbital elements first and then continue with sizes and gravitational influence etc.. I must admit that this para is a bit numbers heavy, but do find it important to give an introduction to some cornerstone-numbers when a reader wants to get into Earth as a topic and to find their bearings in its planetary cosmos. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:40, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 01:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)" Earth is an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution. Earth also rotates and completes a rotation in a day (24 hours). With respect to Earth's orbit around the Sun, the axis of Earth's rotation is tilted, producing seasons, as well as Earth's day- and nighttime. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon. The Moon's rotation and orbit is synchronized, with a period of about a month, through tidal locking with Earth, forcing the Moon's near side to allways face Earth. The Moon is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth and causes on Earth with its planetary sized mass and orbit the main tides, stabilizes Earth's axial orientation and gradually slows its rotation."
Edited proposal vs original:
Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Moon, which is Earth's only permanent natural satellite. Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days. Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane, producing seasons on Earth. The gravitational interaction between Earth and the Moon causes tides, stabilizes Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets.
Earth is an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution. Earth rotates around its own axis in a day. Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane with the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. The Moon always faces the Earth with the same side through tidal locking and causes tides, stabilizes Earth's axis and gradually slows its rotation.
What do you think of the above? I've not checked it against the body. I'm sure other people can improve the prose further.
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According to radiometric dating estimation and other evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the ocean and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the proliferation of anaerobic and, later, aerobic organisms. Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as early as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. In the history of life on Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth are extinct. Almost 8 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival. Humans increasingly impact Earth's surface, hydrology, atmospheric processes, and other life.
Proposal:
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago and within the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean and then life in it formed, first with anaerobic and then with aerobic organisms, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago and the proliferation of life, particularly since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions, life has adapted to Earth everywhere, and in its history on Earth has developed a broad biodiversity, with life today making a mere 1% of all species that have already lived on Earth. Home to humans, 8 billion people live on Earth, depending on it for survival. In Earth's current geological epoch, the Holocene, humans have been increasingly impacting Earth's environment, giving rise to the emerging Anthropocene. Today's human impact and exploitation is unsustainable and degrading for Earth's surface, orbits, hydrology, atmospheric processes, endangering other life and causing widespread extinction.
Last but not least the fourth para: well I tried here to structure it chronologically and focus on what life and humans mean when speaking about Earth as a geological issue. Here I disarmed some sentences about extinction, since they sounded like previous editory having thrown arguments at each other about climate change (e.g. 99% all life allready extinct; I tried to focus that statement on its message of life being old and diverse. From fractions and spread of diversity I continued to humans as one tiny frction of Earth's life's diversity but also their impact on Earth and its life. Trying to make humans and their impact less sound detached from Earth as a topic and less about the humans (e.g. focusing on "degrading Earth" instead of impact of humans being about their survival; in the context of the article Earth at least. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:59, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 04:34, 18 January 2022 (UTC)Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean and then life in it formed. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago.Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as early as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. In the history of life on Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth have disappeared.Humans emerged 300.000 years ago on Earth, having today a population of 8 billion. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, Humans have increasingly impacted Earth's environment. Today humans exploit unsustainable and degrading Earth's climate, soils, waters and ecosystems, threatening people's lifes, endangering other life and causing widespread extinction.
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean and then life in it formed. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300.000 years ago on Earth, having today a population of 8 billion. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, Humans have increasingly impacted Earth's environment. Today humanity's impact on Earth's climate, soils, waters and ecosystem has become unsustainable, threatening people's lifes and causing widespread extinction of other life.
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. During the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean formed and then life developed within it. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300,000 years ago, and have reached a population of almost 8 billion today. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, but have increasingly impacted Earth's environment. Today, humanity's impact on Earth's climate, soils, waters and ecosystem has become unsustainable, threatening people's lifes and causing widespread extinction of other life.
Great work! Thank you for respomding and your constructive input! ♡ ... I am fine with this para as it stands now! Thank you again for having reached this point together constructively. Feel free to add it. If this para runs silent in the next days I would add it then. Nsae Comp ( talk) 14:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
All paragraphes are done, the discussion that has been going on, has been addressed. Nsae Comp ( talk) 06:13, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
I cannot found a single decent GIF of the orbit of Earth, except this. Does anyone have a better image/GIF? CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 06:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
It's a weird technicality but trace amounts of introduced microscopic life do exist on other planets, having been brought along on space probes due to the practical impossibility of 100% sterilizing them. It's not a large enough amount to matter in any significant way but it does mean that the statement "only planet known to harbor life" is technically incorrect. SpudNutimus ( talk) 17:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
The current image used to represent earth is The Blue Marble, and rightly so. However, the main version used is one scanned by NASA in 1972 which, as a result of poor processing, has inaccurate colors and does not do the Earth justice.
At the end of most film magazines used on the Apollo missions, there is a photograph of a color calibration chart. By calibrating the colors in The Blue Marble to match the colors on the chart one can better approximate what the astronauts actually saw when they took the picture. It is by this process that this alternate version of the photograph came to be produced. This new version of The Blue Marble was taken and re-cropped from the original AS17-148-22727 photograph, scanned by NASA's Johnson Space Center.
My proposal is that we let go of our personal attachments to the original purple earth, and update the official photographic representation of earth to something more accurate to real-life. Aaron1a12 ( talk) 21:11, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Looks good, refreshing and eyes opening like Wikipedia should. Its not a map afterall. Nsae Comp ( talk) 13:54, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Portraits nicely that Earth is not bound to human convention and is more than what we want it to be. Beautyful. I find it good because it is a portrait, I am not asking for rotating all images of Earth like that, but as a portrait as a whole (e.g. not as a map) it does not need to fulfill a use like quick orientation or not to be distracting from something conveyed by a depiction of Earth e.g. in infrared or any other analysis of Earth. The example of shelfs and books well, a shelf works by standing by gravity, but Earth does not care how we orient it, in fact there is no difference, because the reference frame is missing like in the shelf example, in that picture you have also a floor and ceiling, thats something that is missing here so you can indeed rotate it without distroying its correctness. Its like having a picture without reference frame of a shelf that you can turn on its head and is built to still be useable. Nsae Comp ( talk) 14:05, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Your example of the shelf is like having a picture of Earth and the Moon and turning only Earth on its head, then we most certainly have a problem, because then the reference frame is there. Nsae Comp ( talk) 14:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
@ ValuedSalah11: I am making this talk page discussion because of your changes to the earth's age and your changes to Saturn's age. Wikipedia is not faith-based. If it were, we'd need settle the differences between many religions and beliefs of the world. Not all religions agree that the earth was created 6,000 years ago.-- *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 02:59, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
The mean anomaly at Epoch J2000 should read 357.517 instead of 358.617 degrees. It is the difference between the mean longitude 100.46435 and the longitude of perihelion 102.94719 (+360 degrees) given by ref [5] the earth's fact sheet by NASA https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html John Ripfield ( talk) 17:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
I have reverted these edits by Nsae Comp in part because they introduced a number, 365.2421897, that is not in the cited source, and then converted that to some kind of year. It is not clear that astronomers normally make such a conversion.
Also it claims this number is the "synodic period". I copy a definition of synodic period from page 656 (in the glossary) of Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac 3rd ed., edited by Urban and Seidelmann and published by University Science Books in 2013.
synodic period: the mean interval of time between successive conjunctions of a pair of planets, as observed from the Sun; or the mean interval between successive conjunctions of a satelllite with the Sun, as observed from the satellite's primary.
Since the only celestial bodies being discussed are the Earth and the Sun, and the definition of synodic period requires three celestial bodies, the definition cannot apply. Jc3s5h ( talk) 13:52, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
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The mass of the earth is in fact 5.964*10^(24)kg because the equation GMm/r^2; rearranged for M = Fr^2/Gm; 9.80665N*(6371km)^2/G*1kg = x is equal to 5.964*10^(24)kg I could be wrong and qalculate could have a bug but it's worth a try James12Harushi ( talk) 07:20, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
who were the group of people(s) that created the article on earth?-- Footballandgames ( talk) 14:13, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
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Wording "radius equal to the Sunand Earth" is ambiguous. 1.46.139.245 ( talk) 13:24, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
User:Dhtwiki reverted my IABot edits, saying "Adds to clutter, download and setup times; when links are live accomplishes nothing; when links are dead, it's a likely time to reevaluate or update references; linkrot policy doesn't support mass addition of these archive links." I don't really agree that it is just clutter, when a lot of the links are archived for the first time and it doesn't really hurt to have these links in. What do you guys think? CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 00:19, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
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Earth is only planet that has life in it. it's the third planet from the sun. It is also called as Blue planet thus it contains 71% water and only 29% of land mass. 122.174.157.215 ( talk) 05:55, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
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[1] - the Planet Earth may have been formed in only 3 million years instead of the 10-100 million years thought earlier.
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QUESTION: Should this new study (6/14/2023) be included in the main Earth article - or Not?
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In any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! Drbogdan ( talk) 15:21, 17 June 2023 (UTC) Drbogdan ( talk) 15:21, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
@ Velella and Mikenorton: (and others) - FWIW - Thank You for your comments - yes - I understood the new article(s) [2] [1] to refer to the age of the Earth as the usual 4.54 bya, and the formation of Earth as taking the first 3 million years of this overall 4.54 bya age (and not at all as an overall age of the Earth as 3 mya as perhaps some may understand) - seems earlier studies [3] estimated this formation time of planet Earth to be as long as 10-100 million years - the new studies [2] [1] seem to suggest the much shorter formation time of 3 million years instead - hope this clarifies the edit text in question, and informs the current discussion a bit better - in any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 21:52, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
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The "43" in the following text should be changed to half that, "21.5", a necessary change that is evident from the Earth Physical Characteristics near the top of the page. Measurements made to the center of mass are radiuses, not diameters.
Due to Earth's rotation it has the shape of an ellipsoid, bulging at its Equator, reaching 43 kilometers (27 mi) further out from its center of mass than at its poles. [1] [2] RMMentock ( talk) 16:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi there currently the first sentence says "to harbor life." While I am technically fine with the reintroduced shorter and simpler phrasing, though I feel urged to defend the previous wording of "where life developed and found habitability.".
I quite strongly feel it gives a better understanding of what a planet and Earth in this case is for life, "harbour" is almost a text filler in comparison. Afterall the Moon has for some days allready "harboured" life, even space does. But develop and being habitable is a deeply planetary characteristic.
A compromise would be to reduce linking and remove the link to life. But even that doesnt feel being too much. (@ Brandmeister) Nsae Comp ( talk) 21:24, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
The picture that depicts the Earth's surface at night has a very low quality. It'd be better if the image used was Earth's City Lights by DMSP. Inter-rede ( talk) 22:04, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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The Earth is flat. 2600:1700:62B3:8820:A104:D4A:3D2C:1DE0 ( talk) 23:33, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
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Earth is not the only water world, there is also titan, mars, and others but I need elaboration on whether it's water or ice and if so, that narrows it down. AkshathJ ( talk) 00:02, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Change the image. That is the remastered version of the original one. Which is better? #bodyContent a Flag Creator { background-color: #ffa500; color: #ggggggg; font-weight: monoscope; } 15:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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“Through tidal locking, the Moon always faces Earth with the same side, which causes tides, stabilizes Earth's axis, and gradually slows its rotation.”
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“The Moon’s gravity causes tides on Earth, which gradually slow its rotation. It also helps stabilize Earth's axis. As a result of tidal locking, the same side of the Moon always faces Earth.”
[The moon would still cause the tides whether it were locked or not!] The Old Font ( talk) 15:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Not done for now: I agree that the phrasing is ambiguous, but I think the proposed wording is still ambiguous/clunky. Which body is the it in "its rotation"? Also, tidal locking can happen regardless of ocean tides, yes? Being generous, I would interpret the present sentence to mean "through [[the process of]] tidal locking, [[this list of things happen]]." Not opposed to changing it, just not sure about this proposed alternative. Brevity is to be encouraged in an article's lead. The Savage Norwegian 18:19, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
The Moon’s gravity helps stabilize Earth's axis, and also causes tides which gradually slow Earth's rotation. As a result of tidal locking, the same side of the Moon always faces Earth.Ocean tides are in fact by far the main contributor to the tidal locking seen in the Earth-Moon system, so this phrasing is fine. Tollens ( talk) 00:30, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets. About 29% of Earth's surface is land, with the remaining 71% covered with water and much of Earth's polar regions covered in ice. Earth's interior is active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field, and a convective mantle that drives plate tectonics. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive, including more than 8 billion humans. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at 384,400 km (1.28 light seconds) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. This view of Earth was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015, from above the Compton crater on the Moon. Photograph credit: NASA
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I am concerned with some recent good-faith changes to this article over the past week or so. 50-60 edits have been made in this period, primarily to the lead section. Not only has the section increased in length by over 50%, but I believe that overly technical terms have been introduced and the overall grammaticality has suffered. As it is a Featured Article, I would expect better conformance to MOS:INTRO.
The following sentence, for example, is not very grammatical:
As members of Earth's biosphere, depending on it and Earth's natural resources for survival, humans impact and exploit, as a connected world, unsustainable and degrading Earth's surface, orbits, hydrology, atmospheric processes, and endangering other life, causing mass extinction.
Compare with the same passage from before these edits:
Almost 8 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival. Humans increasingly impact Earth's surface, hydrology, atmospheric processes, and other life.
Again, I believe that these edits are being made in good faith. But I fear they risk decreasing the quality of a well-written Featured Article. Fowlerism ( talk) 17:53, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbour and support life. Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water. Furthermore Earth's surface is predominantly water, either as water ice at the polar regions, but mostly as liquid water making 71% of Earth's surface, domintated by a global Ocean, dwarfing other salt-water and freshwater bodies like lakes and rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface is land consisting of continents and islands, most of it lying in the land hemisphere. The surface altogether rests on several rigid tectonic plates of Earth's lithosphere, which migrate over many millions of years, producing magmatic and seismic activity, and are driven by a convective mantle around a solid iron inner core and a liquid outer core, which generates Earth's magnetic field, deflecting destructive solar winds and shaping Earth's magnetosphere.Earth has an atmosphere, consisting mostly of inert nitrogen, partially of reactive oxygen and in small amounts of other elements and water vapor, allowing widespread formation and systems of water clouds. Surface conditions are heavily regulated by the atmosphere; by its shielding, composition and circulation, along with the Oceanic circulation. The atmosphere, together with Earth's hydrosphere and lithosphere, is the environment that has been harbouring life on Earth, and has also been significantly shaped by life. Earth receives 1.361 kW/ m2 solar irradiance, which reaches the surface unevenly and seasonally different at different latitudes. The distribution of Earth's energy budget through its environment results in a complex climate system, producing Earth's climate and phenomena rich weather. This system, with an anthropogenically increasing average surface temperature of 14 ° C, is sensitive to topographic differences and atmospheric changes, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, causing effects like global climate change.
Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days (a year) and at a distance of about eight light minutes (an astronomical unit, AU). Earth rotates at a period of 24 hours (a day), producing night- and daytimes, and its axis of rotation being tilted with respect to Earth's orbital plane, produces seasons on Earth. Earth has one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which remained of a giant-impact with Earth during Earth's formation, having a size of a quarter of Earth's width, planetary-mass and being at an average distance of about 380,000 km (1.28 light seconds) from Earth. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the most massive and largest of the four rocky planets, being an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. Earth's gravity (9.8 m/s2 at its surface) interacts with other objects in space, tidally locking the Moon's rotation and its orbital operiod of about a month. While the Moon's gravity causes on Earth the main tides, stabilizes Earth's axial orientation and gradually slows its rotation.
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago and within the first billion years of Earth's history, the oceans and then life in it formed, first with anaerobic and then with aerobic organisms, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago and the proliferation of life, particularly since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions, life has adapted to Earth everywhere, and in its history on Earth has developed a broad biodiversity, with life today making a mere 1% of all species that have already lived on Earth. Home to humans, 8 billion people live on Earth, depending on it for survival. In Earth's current geological epoch, the Holocene, humans have been increasingly impacting Earth's environment, giving rise to the emerging Anthropocene. Today's human impact and exploitation is unsustainable and degrading for Earth's surface, orbits, hydrology, atmospheric processes, endangering other life and causing widespread extinction.
To be constructive, comparing the previous/current version with mine on HemingwayApp then there is not so much the difference in problematic sentances, but rather that I seem to have constructed the same amount of sentances but with more text. So that would mean for me to break down the content/sentances that I have provided in more sentances, choping the content into smaller easier digestable sentances. I really believe it is not fair to the readers to withhold a good overview because of a lack of effort put into puting it into better sentances. Something that I did today and was eager to do together. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:35, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 21:35, 11 January 2022 (UTC)Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the only astronomical object known to harbour and support life. Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water. Water is predmoninant on Earth's surface. At the polar regions the surface is water ice. Liquid water makes up 71% of Earth's surface. A global Ocean takes up most of the area. The Ocean dwarfs all other salt-water and freshwater bodies like lakes and rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface are continents and islands. Most of Earth's land is lying in the land hemisphere. The whole surface rests on several rigid tectonic plate. Tectonic plates migrate over many millions of years, producing magmatic and seismic activity. Cause for this activity is a convective mantle around a iron core. Earth's core generates a magnetic field. This field deflects destructive Solar winds and shapes Earth's magnetosphere.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the only astronomical object known to harbour and support life. Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water. Liquid water dominates with 71% Earth's surface. A global Ocean spans most of that area. This Ocean dwarfs all other salt-water and freshwater bodies like lakes and rivers. Water ice covers Earth's polar regions. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface are continents and islands. Most of Earth's land is lying in the land hemisphere. The whole surface rests on several rigid tectonic plates. Tectonic plates migrate over many millions of years, producing magmatic and seismic activity. Cause for this activity is a convective mantle around an iron core. Earth's core generates a magnetic field. This field deflects destructive Solar winds and shapes Earth's magnetosphere.
To reply to some points of you:
Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:10, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Its hydrosphere is the only one in the Solar System sustaining large bodies of liquid surface water, so I'm hesitant to add it. Pinging @ Clayoquot, as her prose quality is better than mine.
I tell my self that "mountain ranges" imply valleys (and in an associative way also trenches) etc., so I would say I am ready to put it into the lead as suggested ("Earth's surface layer is formed of several slowly moving tectonic plates, interacting to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes and earthquakes."). Nsae Comp ( talk) 19:26, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Done I took the liberty to add the sentence because everyone who commented was fine with it now. Only sentence missing if you ask me is the one about Earth being the only place with liquid surface water; see above! Nsae Comp ( talk) 19:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
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Current:
Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. More solar energy is received by tropical regions than polar regions and is redistributed by atmospheric and ocean circulation. Greenhouse gases also play an important role in regulating the surface temperature. A region's climate is not only determined by latitude, but also by elevation and proximity to moderating oceans, among other factors. Severe weather, such as tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, and heatwaves, occurs in most areas and greatly impacts life.
Proposal:
Earth has an atmosphere, consisting mostly of inert nitrogen, partially of reactive oxygen and in small amounts of other elements and water vapor, allowing widespread formation and systems of water clouds. Surface conditions are heavily regulated by the atmosphere; by its shielding, composition and circulation, along with the Oceanic circulation. The atmosphere, together with Earth's hydrosphere and lithosphere, is the environment that has been harbouring life on Earth, and has also been significantly shaped by life. Earth receives 1.361 kW/ m2 solar irradiance, which reaches the surface unevenly and seasonally different at different latitudes. The distribution of Earth's energy budget through its environment results in a complex climate system, producing Earth's climate and phenomena rich weather. This system, with an anthropogenically increasing average surface temperature of 14 ° C, is sensitive to topographic differences and atmospheric changes, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, causing effects like global climate change.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 22:01, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
To furthermore explain the logic that apllied to the other paras: Regarding the atmosphere I took the previous composition sentance and changed it to give an idea how the proportions and main characteristic are. Then I continued on mentioning one of the most important constants, leading the reader to energy budget issues and therefore climate and its complexity and change with its important reference value of globale average temperature. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:23, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
So here my shorter update, taking the above arguments in and leaving out quite a bit... though I dont know if it is well enough structured and therefore might lack crucial cornerstones/issues:
Earth's surface is covered by its atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, partly of oxygen and in smaller amounts of other components. It has been hosting surface conditions for the widespread presence of water vapor and its extensive formation of clouds, as well as for the spread of life. Earth's climate is strongly driven by the energy from the Sun reaching Earth, producing seasons which differ across the latitudes. Earth's climate is sensitive to topographic differences and atmospheric changes, such as increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, causing effects like global climate change. Life has been shaping Earth's atmosphere over long periods of time, with humans currently changing it rapidly. Humans have lowered in the past its protective function towards space through ozone depletion and are causing a demanding increase in surface temperature from 14 ° C.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 02:35, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 00:47, 27 January 2022 (UTC)Earth's surface is covered by its atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, partly of oxygen and in smaller amounts of other components. Water vapor is widely present and is extensively forming clouds. Greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2) retain a part of the energy reaching Earth from the Sun, generating a complex climate and an average surface temperature of 14 ° C. Life has significantly shaped the atmosphere over long periods of time. More rapidly humans have been changing Earth's greenhouse gases, causing an increasing average surface temperature and the demanding climate change.Surface conditions are sensitive to atmospheric changes and can be impacted with relatively small changes.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 02:42, 27 January 2022 (UTC)Earth's surface is covered by its atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen, partly of oxygen and in smaller amounts of other components. Water vapor is widely present and is extensively forming clouds. Greenhouse gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2) retain a part of the energy reaching Earth from the Sun, generating a complex climate and an average surface temperature of 14 ° C. Life is significantly maintaining beneficial levels of atmospheric components, like greenhouse gases. Humans have been changing this, causing among other things an increasing average surface temperature and the demanding climate change.
ad 2) thank you (even if water vapor made sense for me to make clear that CO2 isnt the only one, but its ok) ad 3) well ok, since that sentance works best if comined with humanity's impact, and with that gone it is indeed lost. ad 1) since this is important to describe Earth imho, I have added now a references in the text. The reference speaks of clouds "dominating" the view of Earth (67%). So, somewhat longer, but less unclear, I suggest:" Water vapor is widely present and is forming clouds which cover most of the planet." Nsae Comp ( talk) 06:21, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Current:
Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Moon, which is Earth's only permanent natural satellite. Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days. Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane, producing seasons on Earth. The gravitational interaction between Earth and the Moon causes tides, stabilizes Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets.
Proposal:
Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days (a year) and at a distance of about eight light minutes (an astronomical unit, AU). Earth rotates at a period of 24 hours (a day), producing night- and daytimes, and its axis of rotation being tilted with respect to Earth's orbital plane, produces seasons on Earth. Earth has one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which remained of a giant-impact with Earth during Earth's formation, having a size of a quarter of Earth's width, planetary-mass and being at an average distance of about 380,000 km (1.28 light seconds) from Earth. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the most massive and largest of the four rocky planets, being an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. Earth's gravity (9.8 m/s2 at its surface) interacts with other objects in space, tidally locking the Moon's rotation and its orbital operiod of about a month. While the Moon's gravity causes on Earth the main tides, stabilizes Earth's axial orientation and gradually slows its rotation.
Nsae Comp ( talk) 22:03, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
The third para I rearranged to move orbital elements first and then continue with sizes and gravitational influence etc.. I must admit that this para is a bit numbers heavy, but do find it important to give an introduction to some cornerstone-numbers when a reader wants to get into Earth as a topic and to find their bearings in its planetary cosmos. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:40, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 01:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)" Earth is an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution. Earth also rotates and completes a rotation in a day (24 hours). With respect to Earth's orbit around the Sun, the axis of Earth's rotation is tilted, producing seasons, as well as Earth's day- and nighttime. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon. The Moon's rotation and orbit is synchronized, with a period of about a month, through tidal locking with Earth, forcing the Moon's near side to allways face Earth. The Moon is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth and causes on Earth with its planetary sized mass and orbit the main tides, stabilizes Earth's axial orientation and gradually slows its rotation."
Edited proposal vs original:
Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Moon, which is Earth's only permanent natural satellite. Earth orbits around the Sun in about 365.25 days. Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane, producing seasons on Earth. The gravitational interaction between Earth and the Moon causes tides, stabilizes Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets.
Earth is an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one revolution. Earth rotates around its own axis in a day. Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane with the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. The Moon always faces the Earth with the same side through tidal locking and causes tides, stabilizes Earth's axis and gradually slows its rotation.
What do you think of the above? I've not checked it against the body. I'm sure other people can improve the prose further.
Current:
According to radiometric dating estimation and other evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the ocean and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the proliferation of anaerobic and, later, aerobic organisms. Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as early as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. In the history of life on Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth are extinct. Almost 8 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival. Humans increasingly impact Earth's surface, hydrology, atmospheric processes, and other life.
Proposal:
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago and within the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean and then life in it formed, first with anaerobic and then with aerobic organisms, leading to the Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago and the proliferation of life, particularly since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago. Occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions, life has adapted to Earth everywhere, and in its history on Earth has developed a broad biodiversity, with life today making a mere 1% of all species that have already lived on Earth. Home to humans, 8 billion people live on Earth, depending on it for survival. In Earth's current geological epoch, the Holocene, humans have been increasingly impacting Earth's environment, giving rise to the emerging Anthropocene. Today's human impact and exploitation is unsustainable and degrading for Earth's surface, orbits, hydrology, atmospheric processes, endangering other life and causing widespread extinction.
Last but not least the fourth para: well I tried here to structure it chronologically and focus on what life and humans mean when speaking about Earth as a geological issue. Here I disarmed some sentences about extinction, since they sounded like previous editory having thrown arguments at each other about climate change (e.g. 99% all life allready extinct; I tried to focus that statement on its message of life being old and diverse. From fractions and spread of diversity I continued to humans as one tiny frction of Earth's life's diversity but also their impact on Earth and its life. Trying to make humans and their impact less sound detached from Earth as a topic and less about the humans (e.g. focusing on "degrading Earth" instead of impact of humans being about their survival; in the context of the article Earth at least. Nsae Comp ( talk) 20:59, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Nsae Comp ( talk) 04:34, 18 January 2022 (UTC)Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean and then life in it formed. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago.Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as early as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. In the history of life on Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinctions. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth have disappeared.Humans emerged 300.000 years ago on Earth, having today a population of 8 billion. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, Humans have increasingly impacted Earth's environment. Today humans exploit unsustainable and degrading Earth's climate, soils, waters and ecosystems, threatening people's lifes, endangering other life and causing widespread extinction.
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean and then life in it formed. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300.000 years ago on Earth, having today a population of 8 billion. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, Humans have increasingly impacted Earth's environment. Today humanity's impact on Earth's climate, soils, waters and ecosystem has become unsustainable, threatening people's lifes and causing widespread extinction of other life.
Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. During the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean formed and then life developed within it. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years ago. Humans emerged 300,000 years ago, and have reached a population of almost 8 billion today. Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, but have increasingly impacted Earth's environment. Today, humanity's impact on Earth's climate, soils, waters and ecosystem has become unsustainable, threatening people's lifes and causing widespread extinction of other life.
Great work! Thank you for respomding and your constructive input! ♡ ... I am fine with this para as it stands now! Thank you again for having reached this point together constructively. Feel free to add it. If this para runs silent in the next days I would add it then. Nsae Comp ( talk) 14:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
All paragraphes are done, the discussion that has been going on, has been addressed. Nsae Comp ( talk) 06:13, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
I cannot found a single decent GIF of the orbit of Earth, except this. Does anyone have a better image/GIF? CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 06:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
It's a weird technicality but trace amounts of introduced microscopic life do exist on other planets, having been brought along on space probes due to the practical impossibility of 100% sterilizing them. It's not a large enough amount to matter in any significant way but it does mean that the statement "only planet known to harbor life" is technically incorrect. SpudNutimus ( talk) 17:36, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
The current image used to represent earth is The Blue Marble, and rightly so. However, the main version used is one scanned by NASA in 1972 which, as a result of poor processing, has inaccurate colors and does not do the Earth justice.
At the end of most film magazines used on the Apollo missions, there is a photograph of a color calibration chart. By calibrating the colors in The Blue Marble to match the colors on the chart one can better approximate what the astronauts actually saw when they took the picture. It is by this process that this alternate version of the photograph came to be produced. This new version of The Blue Marble was taken and re-cropped from the original AS17-148-22727 photograph, scanned by NASA's Johnson Space Center.
My proposal is that we let go of our personal attachments to the original purple earth, and update the official photographic representation of earth to something more accurate to real-life. Aaron1a12 ( talk) 21:11, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Looks good, refreshing and eyes opening like Wikipedia should. Its not a map afterall. Nsae Comp ( talk) 13:54, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Portraits nicely that Earth is not bound to human convention and is more than what we want it to be. Beautyful. I find it good because it is a portrait, I am not asking for rotating all images of Earth like that, but as a portrait as a whole (e.g. not as a map) it does not need to fulfill a use like quick orientation or not to be distracting from something conveyed by a depiction of Earth e.g. in infrared or any other analysis of Earth. The example of shelfs and books well, a shelf works by standing by gravity, but Earth does not care how we orient it, in fact there is no difference, because the reference frame is missing like in the shelf example, in that picture you have also a floor and ceiling, thats something that is missing here so you can indeed rotate it without distroying its correctness. Its like having a picture without reference frame of a shelf that you can turn on its head and is built to still be useable. Nsae Comp ( talk) 14:05, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Your example of the shelf is like having a picture of Earth and the Moon and turning only Earth on its head, then we most certainly have a problem, because then the reference frame is there. Nsae Comp ( talk) 14:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
@ ValuedSalah11: I am making this talk page discussion because of your changes to the earth's age and your changes to Saturn's age. Wikipedia is not faith-based. If it were, we'd need settle the differences between many religions and beliefs of the world. Not all religions agree that the earth was created 6,000 years ago.-- *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page ♮ 02:59, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
The mean anomaly at Epoch J2000 should read 357.517 instead of 358.617 degrees. It is the difference between the mean longitude 100.46435 and the longitude of perihelion 102.94719 (+360 degrees) given by ref [5] the earth's fact sheet by NASA https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html John Ripfield ( talk) 17:53, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
I have reverted these edits by Nsae Comp in part because they introduced a number, 365.2421897, that is not in the cited source, and then converted that to some kind of year. It is not clear that astronomers normally make such a conversion.
Also it claims this number is the "synodic period". I copy a definition of synodic period from page 656 (in the glossary) of Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac 3rd ed., edited by Urban and Seidelmann and published by University Science Books in 2013.
synodic period: the mean interval of time between successive conjunctions of a pair of planets, as observed from the Sun; or the mean interval between successive conjunctions of a satelllite with the Sun, as observed from the satellite's primary.
Since the only celestial bodies being discussed are the Earth and the Sun, and the definition of synodic period requires three celestial bodies, the definition cannot apply. Jc3s5h ( talk) 13:52, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
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The mass of the earth is in fact 5.964*10^(24)kg because the equation GMm/r^2; rearranged for M = Fr^2/Gm; 9.80665N*(6371km)^2/G*1kg = x is equal to 5.964*10^(24)kg I could be wrong and qalculate could have a bug but it's worth a try James12Harushi ( talk) 07:20, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
who were the group of people(s) that created the article on earth?-- Footballandgames ( talk) 14:13, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
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Wording "radius equal to the Sunand Earth" is ambiguous. 1.46.139.245 ( talk) 13:24, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
User:Dhtwiki reverted my IABot edits, saying "Adds to clutter, download and setup times; when links are live accomplishes nothing; when links are dead, it's a likely time to reevaluate or update references; linkrot policy doesn't support mass addition of these archive links." I don't really agree that it is just clutter, when a lot of the links are archived for the first time and it doesn't really hurt to have these links in. What do you guys think? CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 00:19, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Colonization of Earth and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 9#Colonization of Earth until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. MB 13:59, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
Earth is only planet that has life in it. it's the third planet from the sun. It is also called as Blue planet thus it contains 71% water and only 29% of land mass. 122.174.157.215 ( talk) 05:55, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
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QUESTION: Should this new study (6/14/2023) be included in the main Earth article - or Not?
Comments Welcome !!
In any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! Drbogdan ( talk) 15:21, 17 June 2023 (UTC) Drbogdan ( talk) 15:21, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
@ Velella and Mikenorton: (and others) - FWIW - Thank You for your comments - yes - I understood the new article(s) [2] [1] to refer to the age of the Earth as the usual 4.54 bya, and the formation of Earth as taking the first 3 million years of this overall 4.54 bya age (and not at all as an overall age of the Earth as 3 mya as perhaps some may understand) - seems earlier studies [3] estimated this formation time of planet Earth to be as long as 10-100 million years - the new studies [2] [1] seem to suggest the much shorter formation time of 3 million years instead - hope this clarifies the edit text in question, and informs the current discussion a bit better - in any case - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan ( talk) 21:52, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
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The "43" in the following text should be changed to half that, "21.5", a necessary change that is evident from the Earth Physical Characteristics near the top of the page. Measurements made to the center of mass are radiuses, not diameters.
Due to Earth's rotation it has the shape of an ellipsoid, bulging at its Equator, reaching 43 kilometers (27 mi) further out from its center of mass than at its poles. [1] [2] RMMentock ( talk) 16:23, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi there currently the first sentence says "to harbor life." While I am technically fine with the reintroduced shorter and simpler phrasing, though I feel urged to defend the previous wording of "where life developed and found habitability.".
I quite strongly feel it gives a better understanding of what a planet and Earth in this case is for life, "harbour" is almost a text filler in comparison. Afterall the Moon has for some days allready "harboured" life, even space does. But develop and being habitable is a deeply planetary characteristic.
A compromise would be to reduce linking and remove the link to life. But even that doesnt feel being too much. (@ Brandmeister) Nsae Comp ( talk) 21:24, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
The picture that depicts the Earth's surface at night has a very low quality. It'd be better if the image used was Earth's City Lights by DMSP. Inter-rede ( talk) 22:04, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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The Earth is flat. 2600:1700:62B3:8820:A104:D4A:3D2C:1DE0 ( talk) 23:33, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
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Earth is not the only water world, there is also titan, mars, and others but I need elaboration on whether it's water or ice and if so, that narrows it down. AkshathJ ( talk) 00:02, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
Change the image. That is the remastered version of the original one. Which is better? #bodyContent a Flag Creator { background-color: #ffa500; color: #ggggggg; font-weight: monoscope; } 15:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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Change:
“Through tidal locking, the Moon always faces Earth with the same side, which causes tides, stabilizes Earth's axis, and gradually slows its rotation.”
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“The Moon’s gravity causes tides on Earth, which gradually slow its rotation. It also helps stabilize Earth's axis. As a result of tidal locking, the same side of the Moon always faces Earth.”
[The moon would still cause the tides whether it were locked or not!] The Old Font ( talk) 15:54, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
Not done for now: I agree that the phrasing is ambiguous, but I think the proposed wording is still ambiguous/clunky. Which body is the it in "its rotation"? Also, tidal locking can happen regardless of ocean tides, yes? Being generous, I would interpret the present sentence to mean "through [[the process of]] tidal locking, [[this list of things happen]]." Not opposed to changing it, just not sure about this proposed alternative. Brevity is to be encouraged in an article's lead. The Savage Norwegian 18:19, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
The Moon’s gravity helps stabilize Earth's axis, and also causes tides which gradually slow Earth's rotation. As a result of tidal locking, the same side of the Moon always faces Earth.Ocean tides are in fact by far the main contributor to the tidal locking seen in the Earth-Moon system, so this phrasing is fine. Tollens ( talk) 00:30, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
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Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. It is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets. About 29% of Earth's surface is land, with the remaining 71% covered with water and much of Earth's polar regions covered in ice. Earth's interior is active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field, and a convective mantle that drives plate tectonics. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect Earth's atmosphere and surface. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive, including more than 8 billion humans. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which orbits Earth at 384,400 km (1.28 light seconds) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. This view of Earth was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2015, from above the Compton crater on the Moon. Photograph credit: NASA
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A bunch of the sentences and statements in the article are unsourced, and considering this is an FA I feel like it has to be dealt with at some point. Blue Jay ( talk) 12:32, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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