Solar System

♁ Inner Solar System

Earth

The only world we know with life. The exception.

From space, it is unremarkable in scale — a pale blue dot, as Carl Sagan once noted, suspended in a sunbeam. But look closer and it is extraordinary: the only world we know of with liquid water on its surface, a breathable atmosphere, and the conditions for life to arise. Not because the universe is generous. But because, by extraordinary chance, everything aligned. We live on the exception.

"We live on the exception."
149.6 million km

Distance from Sun

−88° to 58° C

Surface Temperature

78 % nitrogen

Atmospheric Composition

24 hours

Day Length

1

Moon

29.8 km/s

Orbital Speed

12,742 km diameter

Diameter

9.81 m/s²

Surface Gravity

One Remarkable Thing

Earth's Moon is unusually large relative to its host planet. Its gravitational influence stabilises Earth's axial tilt — without it, our climate would swing into chaos and life as we know it may never have evolved.

Earth
Earth

Earth is the reference. Diameter: 12,742 km. Every other planet on this site is drawn to scale against it.