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Life could not exist for any reasonable length of time on the Earth without the energy from the Sun, which powers the water cycle and provides sunlight for plant life. Some tiny areas, heated by volcanoes and the Earth's molten magma, could possibly still support bacterial life. But the oceans and even the atmosphere would freeze solid where it was not warm enough. More than 99% of Earth would be covered with a thin hard layer of frozen gases at a temperature near absolute zero.

Note that this same scenario would apply if the Earth was thrown out of its current orbit, as similar conditions would befall Earth if it was anywhere farther from the Sun than Jupiter (about 5 times farther from the Sun than Earth).

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