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Earth
Well, Earth is the planet we live on. It is the third planet from the Sun of our Solar system which itself is part of the Milky Way galaxy. So far it is the only known place to have life.
Now behold the grand rendering of the Earth map in ASCII (equirectangular projection):
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Some numbers about the planet Earth:
- age: 4.54 billion years
- distance from the Sun (nearest, furthest): 147098450 km, 152097597 km,
- radius (equator, poles): 6378 km, 6356 km
- mass: 5.9 * 10^24 kg
- acceleration by gravity: 9.8 m/s^2
- axial tilt: 23.4 degrees
- length of year: 365.25 days
- land vs water area: 148940000 km^2, 361132000 km^2