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In the Solar System

Earth

The only planet known to carry life, and the only one whose surface holds liquid water in bulk: 71% of it is ocean. An atmosphere of nitrogen and oxygen keeps it some 33 °C warmer than bare sunlight would and stops most of what falls towards it, and a magnetic field turns aside the solar wind that stripped Mars. Everything else on this map is measured from here.

Radius
6,378 km
Turns once in
23 h 56 m

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