Space is an hour's drive away.
Point your car straight up at 62 mph and you'd cross the edge of space, 62 miles up, in about an hour. Staying there is the hard part: the Space Station flies at 17,500 mph.
Source: NASA JPL ↗Big questions, answered
One page per question, with the short answer, the facts, the sources and ideas for the classroom.
Everest is the highest mountain. Not the tallest.
From its base on the seafloor, Hawaii's Mauna Kea rises more than 33,500 ft (10,210 m), most of it underwater. And the summit farthest from Earth's center is Chimborazo, in Ecuador.
Source: NOAA ↗
The biggest waterfall on Earth is underwater.
Between Greenland and Iceland, cold, heavy water pours over an undersea ridge and falls about 11,500 ft (3,505 m), more than three times the tallest waterfall on land.
Source: NOAA ↗
If the Sun were your front door, Earth would be a nickel.
The Sun is 109 times wider than Earth. At that scale, the nickel would orbit about 240 yards from your door.
Source: NASA ↗
If the Sun became a black hole, it would be about 4 miles wide.
Earth would keep the same orbit (same mass, same pull). It would just get very dark and very cold. Relax: the Sun is far too small to ever become one.
Source: NASA ↗The missions
Every episode measures something real against one tiny human, 1.7 m tall. Hover a mission (or tap it) to send Tiny Human along the ruler. Each step on the scale is ten times the one before.
Mount Everest
8,849 m tallIn Episode 3
5,205Tiny Humans
The Mariana Trench
10,935 m deepEpisode 36,432Tiny Humans
The Kola Borehole
12,262 m, the deepest hole ever dugIn Episode 17,213Tiny Humans
The Earth's core
6,371 km to the centerEpisode 13.7 millionTiny Humans
Mars
6,779 km wideEpisode 24.0 millionTiny Humans
Jupiter
142,984 km wideComing up84 millionTiny Humans
Not everything is about size. The surface of the Sun is about 5,500 °C, roughly 150 times your body temperature. Tiny Human is going anyway.
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