Image:Sun, Earth size comparison.jpg

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Rough comparison of the sizes of the Earth and Sun, with diameters of 12,756 km and 1.4 million km, respectively.

Created from Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg and [1].

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  • 2006-03-20 19:58 Brian0918 1824×1761×8 (1417687 bytes) overlay Earth for realism
  • 2006-03-20 05:02 Brian0918 1824×1761×8 (1417548 bytes) Rough comparison of the sizes of the Earth and Sun, with diameters of 12,756km and 1.4 million km, respectively. Created from [[:Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg]] and [http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/PIA03149.jpg] {{PD-USGov-NASA}

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File change date and time 14:57, 20 March 2006
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