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Earth and Moon. Artwork

by

ESA/Medialab/Novapix

Reference

a-lun50-99003

Date

2008-09-23

Artist view of the Earth and the Moon showing their actual relative size (but not the actual distance between the two). Earth's equatorial diameter is 12,756 km while the Moon's diameter is 3,476 km. The Moon is actually one of the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, smaller only than Jupiter's Ganymede, Callisto and Io as well as Saturn's Titan, but bigger than Jupiter's Europa, Neptune's Triton and the planet Pluto.