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Moon vs Earth Size

Using the game’s measurements, the Moon has approximately 0.2727× the diameter of Earth.

One shared scale · diameter against diameter
Earth12,742 km
diameter
Moon3,474.8 km
diameter

The bars compare the named dimensions, not area, volume or weight.

The relationship

0.2727× the reference size.

The Moon is a little over one quarter of Earth’s diameter.

The Moon looks large in a close-up and small in a wide sky photograph. Using the same scale for both diameters removes the effects of framing and distance.

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What the measurements include

A diameter ratio is one-dimensional. The Moon’s surface area and volume are smaller fractions of Earth’s, so this ratio should not be read as an area, mass or volume comparison.

Moon

3,474.8 km · diameter

NASA Solar System Exploration ↗

Earth

12,742 km · diameter

NASA Solar System Exploration ↗

Why photos can fool your sense of scale

Distance from the camera, lens choice and cropping change how large an object appears. Check the named measurement before comparing images. The bars above put both measurements on the same numerical scale, so a longer bar corresponds to the same multiple of the stated dimension.

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Another way to see the scale.