How the earth was made _______________________________ Formation. When the solar system settled into its current layout about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth formed when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become the third planet from the Sun.
Like its fellow terrestrial planets, Earth has a central core, a rocky mantle, and a solid crust.
According to Islamic scriptures, The Quran says that "the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit before We clove them asunder" (21:30).
Following this big explosion, Allah "turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke. He said to it and the earth: 'Come together, willingly or unwillingly.
Many years after creating the world, life was created, which is said to be science made from an amoeba.
According to Islam, after creating the world, Allah brought Hazrat Adam (as) and Hawa (as) to the earth, and humans were born from there.
Top 5 Facts about earth according to science
1. Earth Is Radioactive
In total, Earth generates as much as 40 terawatts of heat, half of which comes from radioactive decay in its core, according to a 2011 study.
Scientists measured particles called antineutrinos that streamed up from Earth's core and found that half of Earth's heat is generated through the radioactive decay of certain elements.
Tom Crafford, a Mineral Resources Program Coordinator at the U.S. Geological Survey, tells Popular Mechanics: “Most of the internal heat that keeps Earth a living, the vibrant planet comes from the radioactive breakdown of elements like thorium, uranium, and potassium."
2. life below the seafloor
The sediments underlying Earth's oceans are home to approximately 2.9 x 10^29 microorganisms, existing at depths as great as 2.5 km below the seafloor.
The majority of this deep subseafloor biosphere grows extremely slowly relative to live in the surface world, with estimates of cell division once every 10-1000+ years."
Caltech's geobiologist Victoria Orphan tells Popular Mechanics. Scientists are finding new sources of microbial life deeper and deeper below the seafloor than ever before.
In March, a team of scientists revealed that they had found traces of bacteria (try 10 billion bacterial cells) in rocks 400 feet below the seafloor—deeper than ever before
3. Mosses Are Everywhere
“Mosses live on the surface soils in deserts all across the world.
A cool thing about moss is that they have the ability to capture water straight out of the air using these specialized structures that look like little hairs coming out of their leaves—called awns," USGS research ecologist Sasha Reed tells Popular Mechanics.
"In the dry places that these mosses live, this is a pretty cool trick!”
4. Earthquake Weather Is a Myth
"Each culture has its own version of 'earthquake weather' to rationalize when and where an earthquake will hit," seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones of Caltech tells Popular Mechanics. "Earthquakes are below the surface and need a constant fault to happen, and this has nothing to do with the weather."
5. Clouds Help Regulate Earth's Temperature
"If you bring all water droplets in clouds to the surface, you will cover Earth with a liquid film no thicker than a human hair," Schneider of Caltech tells Popular Mechanics.
"And yet, this tiny amount of water makes the difference between cool overcast summer days and warm, clear days.
And it is essential for the climate. On average, clouds cool Earth by 13 F relative to what global temperatures would be without clouds."
"How much global warming we get crucially depends on whether we get more or fewer clouds as the climate warms," Schneider says.
"Climate models disagree on the answer because simulating clouds and the tiny amount of water in them is hard. At Caltech, we are working on using AI to make climate models and their cloud simulations better, to get more precise answers about how climate will change.
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