Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Umbilical Cord

Before you were born you grew a cord out of your belly called an Umbilical cord. It allowed you to live without eating or breathing throughout your time in the womb. 
The Umbilical cord comes from the fetus not the mother. 

Source : Wikipedia

Monday, 5 February 2024

Moon Mountain

The tallest mountain on the moon isn't the tallest object. A ridge that was thrown up by an impact is taller. 
The tallest mountain on the moon is called mons Huygens. It is 5 & ½ km high at the peak. Smaller than many of Earth's mountains, but still very tall. 
The selenean Summit is a similar height to Everest on earth but it is not a mountain but the side of an impact crater. It is 10.7 km tall, slightly higher than Everest and at the height of commercial jet cruising altitude on earth. 

Sources 


Saturday, 3 February 2024

Surface Area of Britain

The surface area of the Island of Great Britain is 209,331 km². That means if Britain was squashed into the shape of a square, it would be roughly one 5th of a million square millimetres. 
image generated by artificial intelligence 

If there was a country that is has a surface area of 1 million square kilometres, it would be 5 times the size of Britain.