Earth — What a Weird Planet! w/ Nat Geo’s Kathryn Williams!

There are a LOT of weird planets out there — Here’s a look at what makes our own Earth one of the weirdest!

This week on The Cosmic Companion, we’ll look at Earth: What a Weird Planet, exploring some of the odd facts which make our world such an odd place. Later in the show, we’ll be talking with Kathryn Williams, editor of Weird but True! World 2023 from National Geographic.

The most striking feature of the Blue Marble of planets is… well… it’s blue. Very blue. So bluuueeee!

Water covers roughly three-quarters of the surface of our planet. And, although we now suspect several other worlds of the Solar System house vast oceans of water, none of these is found so readily across the surface.

And have you noticed the Moon? Our planetary companion is a whopping one-quarter of the size of Earth. That ratio is only outdone by Pluto and Charon, but Pluto is no longer considered a full-fledged planet, so we win. Go Earth!