This is the one we know. Every person who has ever lived has lived here.
Right now Earth is carrying you around the Sun at about 107,000 km/h. You don't feel a thing, because everything around you is moving too.
It is the only place we know of with liquid water on the surface, a breathable sky and life. We have searched, and so far there is nowhere else like it.
Our Moon is slowly drifting away, about 3.8 centimetres a year, roughly as fast as your fingernails grow.
In 1990, Voyager 1 looked back from 6 billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a dot smaller than a pixel. Carl Sagan called it the Pale Blue Dot.
- Width
- 12,742 km
- One day
- 23.9 hours
- One year
- 365 Earth days
- Moons
- 1
- Temperature
- 15 °C on average
- 70 kg on Earth weighs
- 70 kg here
