7 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries About Planet Earth

From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn’t completely understand.

From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn’t completely understand.


#Where did all the water come from?
Water, water everywhere. It covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface and earns it the nickname “the blue planet.” And yet… where did it come from? How is it so abundant on our planet when it’s almost nonexistent throughout the rest of our solar system? Most scientists believe that when planet Earth formed, about four and a half billion years ago, it was a dry, rocky planet. The most popular scientific theory states that the H2O arrived in the form of several enormous asteroids filled with ice. Another suggests that the water actually has been around since Earth’s formation, and that the forming Earth retained it from the cloud of gas and dust that formed the solar system. 

#What about all the oxygen?
Another thing that’s proved very advantageous for the creatures living on Earth is the planet’s oxygen. And while we actually do know how it originated—about 2.4 billion years ago, microscopic creatures called cyanobacteria released oxygen as a waste product, filling the atmosphere with it—the happenings of the next few eons are a little less clear. After that, the level of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere went wildly up and down until it finally stabilized around 540 million years ago. Since then, it’s remained at about the breathable level we experience today. But what caused it to suddenly stabilize? This remains one of the biggest scientific mysteries about our home planet.

#What really happened to the dinosaurs?
For millions of years, they were the undisputed rulers of the prehistoric world; alas, today they’re nothing but the source of museum fascination and cinematic spectacle. What, exactly, caused these massive creatures to meet their evolutionary end 65 million years ago? There are a couple of widespread theories: one suggests that a giant asteroid struck Earth. The other suggests that it was a cataclysmic series of volcanic eruptions. In either case, though, the result would have been fairly the same: dust and debris would have blocked out the sun, hurting life-giving processes like photosynthesis. The Earth’s temperature also would have surged dangerously because of all of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Both the asteroid and volcanic activity hypotheses are backed up by significant scientific discoveries. 

#Will we ever be able to predict earthquakes?
For all of our intense studying of the Earth and the way it works, we still haven’t been able to come up with a way to accurately predict earthquakes. We can certainly try, but our current technology can predict them with about as much accuracy as a weather forecast, and we all know how that goes. We know that earthquakes start when rocks crack underground and send seismic waves toward the surface, but we haven’t figured out why that happens, or how to predict it.

#What’s inside Earth’s core?
While it may seem like humans have successfully explored the farthest reaches of our planet, we’ve truthfully only scratched the surface. (Pun intended!) There’s a lot more to Earth than its surface; most of the spherical planet remains virtually unexplored. The reason for this, of course, is that conditions below Earth’s surface are completely inhospitable. We know that the layer below the crust, the mantle, is composed of mostly solid silicate rock. But the very heart of our planet remains a mystery. For many years, scientists believed that iron and nickel made up Earth’s innermost layer. 
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From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn’t completely understand.
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