[Rockhounds] 10 Ways Earth Revealed Its Weirdness in 2019

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

We live on a strange planet. In a solar system of fiery, poisonous
hellscapes, icy slush balls and ballooning orbs of gas, *Earth*
<https://www.livescience.com/earth.html> is the only planet teeming with
sentient, oxygen-breathing life-forms. It is also the only world in the
solar system known to be slowly but steadily turning itself inside out
through *plate tectonics*
<https://www.livescience.com/37706-what-is-plate-tectonics.html>, as the
surface crust of the planet dives deep into the mantle.

But Earth's strangeness goes way, way deeper than that. From its oddball
wobble to its wandering magnetic field, here are 10 ways Earth revealed its
weirdness in 2019.

https://www.livescience.com/ways-earth-was-weird-in-2019.html