# Earth

*In the Solar System*

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 | 150,816,091 km (-36,342 km/d) |

Distances and speed are computed from JPL Horizons trajectories and are true of 2026-09-05, changing at the rate given beside each. The interpolation itself is good to a few kilometres; what ages these figures is the date, not the arithmetic.

## Elsewhere

- On the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?world=earth
- This object as a page: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/earth/
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt