A little perspective.
Eight worlds. Billions of years. Yours to explore.Illustrative model. Sizes and distances are not to scale.
Terrestrial planet / 03
EarthThe only home we have known.
Liquid oceans, an atmosphere and a restless rocky surface make Earth a remarkable place. It is the only world on which life has been confirmed, and the reference point for every journey beyond it.
Oceans cover about 71% of Earth's surface. From orbit, water and clouds define the view more than the borders drawn on a map.
- Diameter
- 12,756kilometres · equatorial
- One rotation
- 23.9 hourssidereal · Earth time
- One orbit
- 365.25 daysaround the Sun
Rounded values. Rotation measures a spin relative to the stars, which can differ from a sunrise-to-sunrise day.
An entire world in one frame
Formation is an artistic lighting cue; mission dates do not change the illustrative surface.THE LONG VIEW
A world, through time.
An entire world in one frame
The Apollo 17 crew photographs a sunlit Earth on the journey to the Moon. The image becomes one of the best-known views of our shared home.
Read the source ↗Formation lighting is an artistic cue. The surface model is illustrative and does not reconstruct a planet at a particular date.
A SENSE OF SCALE
Worlds, side by side.
The selected world follows your observatory above.
Equatorial diameters to scale. Neutral diagrams; rings and spacing are not represented.
11.21×Jupiter’s equatorial diameter relative to Earth.
| Measure | Earth | Jupiter |
|---|---|---|
| Diameter / km | 12,756 | 142,984 |
| Mean distance / AU | 1.00 | 5.20 |
| Rotation | 23.9 hours | 9.9 hours |
| Orbit | 365.25 days | ~12 years |
AU expresses distance relative to Earth’s average distance from the Sun. Rotation is measured relative to the stars.
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