!["The Blue Marble" photograph of Earth taken by the Apollo 17 mission. The Arabian peninsula, Africa and Madagascar lie in the upper half of the disc, whereas Antarctica is at the bottom.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/The_Blue_Marble_%28remastered%29.jpg/300px-The_Blue_Marble_%28remastered%29.jpg) |
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Adjectives | Earthly, terrestrial, terran, tellurian |
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Epoch J2000 |
Aphelion | 152100000 km (94500000 mi; 1.017 AU) |
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Perihelion | 147095000 km (91401000 mi; 0.98327 AU) |
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| 149598023 km (92955902 mi; 1.00000102 AU) |
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Eccentricity | 0.0167086 |
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| 365.256363004 d (1.00001742096 yr) |
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| 29.78 km/s (107200 km/h; 66600 mph) |
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| 358.617° |
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Inclination | |
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| −11.26064° to J2000 ecliptic |
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| 114.20783° |
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Satellites | |
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Mean radius | 6371.0 km (3958.8 mi) |
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| 6378.1 km (3963.2 mi) |
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| 6356.8 km (3949.9 mi) |
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Flattening | 0.0033528 1/298.257222101 (ETRS89) |
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Circumference | |
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| - 510072000 km2(196940000 sq mi)
- 148940000 km2 land (57510000 sq mi; 29.2%)
- 361132000 km2 water (139434000 sq mi; 70.8%)
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Volume | 260 billion cubic miles |
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Mass | 5.97237×1024 kg (1.31668×1025 lb) (3.0×10−6 M☉) |
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| 5.514 g/cm3(0.1992 lb/cu in) |
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| 9.807 m/s2(1 g; 32.18 ft/s2) |
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| 0.3307 |
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| 11.186 km/s (40270 km/h; 25020 mph) |
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| 0.99726968 d(23h 56m 4.100s) |
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Equatorial rotation velocity | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). |
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| 23.4392811° |
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Albedo | |
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Surface temp. | min | mean | max |
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Kelvin | 184 K[25] | 288 K[26] | 330 K[27] |
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Celsius | −89.2 °C | 14.9 °C | 56.9 °C |
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Fahrenheit | −128.5 °F | 58.7 °F | 134.3 °F |
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| 101.325 kPa (at MSL) |
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Composition by volume | |
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