• Question: roughly what is the circumference of the globe

    Asked by Kieran to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 22 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Charles Laing

      Charles Laing answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Hi Kieran,

      The Earth is pretty big and around the equater measures 25,000 miles!

      The Earth is bigger than Mars (13,000 miles) but nowhere near the size of our Sun (2.7 million miles!).

      Charlie 🚀

    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      Note that because of the rotation and hence gravitational forces, the Earth is widest around the equator! If you measure from pole to pole, it’s circumference is less.

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      What the other guys said 🙂

      If you tried to walk around the equator of the Earth it would take you 9 years!!

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