Earth had an 19-hour day for a billion years

Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 12, 2023

It’s tough accomplishing everything we want to get done in a day. But it would have been even more difficult had we lived earlier in Earth’s history. Although we take the 24-hour day for granted, in Earth’s deep past, days were even shorter.

Day length was shorter because the Moon was closer. “Over time, the Moon has stolen Earth’s rotational energy to boost it into a higher orbit farther
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