It takes one day to spin around one complete time. The Earth's axis is not straight up and down, but tilted a little bit. This tilt is responsible for us having seasons. Otherwise, the temperature would be pretty much the same all year long. Earth is the third closest planet to the Sun.
Earth is only planet in the solar system that can have eclipses of the Sun .
Perhaps Earth's most distinguishing factor, at least from our point of view, is the presence of water, which contributed to the formation of life some 3,000 million years ago. Earth's unique atmosphere is made up of many different gases, mainly nitrogen and oxygen. Our home in the Universe is a large ball of rock spinning through space . This is the Earth, one of the nine planets circling around the sun . It is the third in distance from the sun and the fifth largest of the planets in diameter.