Earth
rocky planet · home
The only world known to have life. Real coastlines, weather systems pushed by the trade winds and westerlies, city lights on the night side and auroras over the poles.
- radius 6,371 km · 71% ocean · 1 day = 23 h 56 min
- ~10,000 satellites now circle it
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Earth in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System
- distance
- 0.99 AU from the Sun
- size
- 12,700 km across
- orbits
- the Sun
- orbiting it
- the Moon
- craft
- James Webb Space Telescope · International Space Station · Hubble Space Telescope · Starship · Falcon 9 · Crew Dragon · Falcon Heavy
- on it
- Mount Everest and the Himalaya · Grand Canyon · The Alps: Matterhorn and Mont Blanc · Mount Kilimanjaro · Mount Fuji · Yosemite Valley · Torres del Paine · Denali · Richat Structure, Sahara · Meeting of Waters, Amazon · Nile Delta · Uluru and Kata Tjuta · Okavango Delta · Sossusvlei dunes, Namib · Great Barrier Reef: Whitsundays and Heart Reef · Hawaii: the Big Island and Kilauea · Iceland: Vatnajokull and Jokulsarlon · Antarctica: Ross Island and the Ross Ice Shelf · Greenland: Ilulissat Icefjord · The Maldives · Bora Bora · Ha Long Bay · Geirangerfjord · Palm Jumeirah, Dubai · Panama Canal · Great Wall at Mutianyu · Pyramids of Giza · Suez Canal · Three Gorges Dam · Hoover Dam and Lake Mead
More places in the Solar System
- Tranquility Base Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon
- Apollo 12 landing site in the Ocean of Storms, on the Moon
- Apollo 14 landing site at Fra Mauro, on the Moon
- Apollo 15 landing site at Hadley-Apennine, on the Moon
- Hadley Rille a lava channel on the Moon
- Apollo 16 landing site at Descartes, on the Moon
- Apollo 17 landing site in the valley of Taurus-Littrow, on the Moon
- Tycho a young crater on the Moon