In the Solar System · tracked live
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
- Around the equator
- 40,075 km
- Mass
- 5.97 x 10^24 kg
- Turns once in
- 23 h 56 m
- From the Sun
- 149,273,713 km (-43,095 km/d)
Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of the date below, changing at the rate beside each.
Everything the map shows is worked out in your browser from published orbital data - nothing on it is a stored picture of where things were.