THE EARTH DATA

Surface Area : 510,100,500 Sq.Kms.

Land Surface : 148,950,800 Sq.Kms. (29.08%)

Water Surface : 361,149,700 Sq.Kms. (70.92%)

Equatorial circumference : 40,075 Kms.

Polar circumference : 40,008 Kms

Equatorial radius : 6,377 Kms.

Equatorial Diameter : 1,22,756 Kms.

Polar radius : 6,357 Kms.

Polar Diameter : 12,714 Kms.

Mean distance from the

Sun : 14,95,97,900 Kms.

Period of revolution : 365 days 5 hours 48 mts. 45.51 Sec.

Period of rotation : 23 hrs. 56 mts. 4.091 Sec.

Escape Velocity from the earth : 11 Km per Sec. (minimum)