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Earth Click here to go back to the Solar System Earth’s Moon First, the equatorial diameter of Earth is 12,756 km. In other words, if you dug a tunnel on the equator that went straight down and went right through the centre of the Earth, it would be about 12,756 km long. Just for comparing, that’s about 1.9 times the diameter of Mars, and only 09% the diameter of Jupiter. The volume of Earth is 1.08 x 1012 km3. That’s 1.08 trillion cubic kilometres of rock and metal. It’s about 6.6 times more volume than Mars. The surface area of Earth is 10,072,000 square kilometres. Of that, 29.2% is covered by land and 70.8% is covered by water. The mass of Earth is 5.97 x 1024 kg. And weighting 5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg, only 0.3% the mass of Jupiter (and Jupiter is mostly Lightweight hydrogen). __Distance:__ 149,600,000 km __Mass:__ 5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg __Temperature:__ -90 C to 60 C or -130 F to 140 F  __Orbits:__ 365.256 Days __Rotation Period:__ 23 hr 56 min __Rotations per Year:__ 366.256 __Days per Year:__ 365.256 __Day Length:__ 24 hr 0 min 0 sec

__ What is an orbit? __ When something circles around a planet, but held just outside the atmosphere, in this way by the gravity by the planet. Sun Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto