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Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

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Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

Schematic diagram of the solar system on the web

When I go to school, textbooks have a schematic diagram of the solar system. But I always feel that it is not intuitive enough, so today I checked the relevant data on the Internet:

Solar diameter = 1,392,000 km

Earth diameter = 12,742 km

Moon diameter = 3476 km

The distance from the Sun to the Earth = 149,600,000 km

The distance from the Moon to the Earth = 384404 kilometers

Converting the above data according to "10,000 km = 1 mm" will yield the following set of data:

Solar diameter = 139 mm

Earth diameter = 1.2 mm

Lunar diameter = 0.34 mm

The distance from the Sun to the Earth = 19460 mm

Distance from the Moon to Earth = 38.4 mm

Expressed in terms of common objects in life:

Sun = orange

Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

Earth = mung beans

Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

Moon = seed of dragon fruit

Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

Distance from the Sun to Earth = Half a basketball court

Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

Combined with the above, the relationship between them is: a small orange (sun) is placed in the center of the basketball court, a green bean (earth) is placed on the outer edge of the bottom line (white line), and there is a dragon fruit seed (moon) on the inner edge of the white line.

Beyond imagination! The true size and distance of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

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