SPACE ATLASSTUDENT REFERENCE · GRADES 4–8
Solar system · Question

Interactive planet size comparison

Compare any two planets on the same diameter scale. Start with Earth vs Jupiter, Mars, or Venus, then see how a modest diameter difference becomes a much larger volume difference.

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Earth
Jupiter
11.21×Jupiter's equatorial diameter vs Earth's
1321×Jupiter's volume vs Earth's
1321Earths that fit inside Jupiter by volume
Quick answers

Popular planet size comparisons.

These common comparisons are useful anchors before trying your own pair above.

Jupiter vs Earth

11.21× wider

Jupiter's diameter is about 11.21 Earth diameters. Because volume grows with the cube of diameter, its sphere-model volume is about 1,321 Earths.

Mars vs Earth

0.53× Earth's diameter

Mars is just over half as wide as Earth, but only about 15% of Earth's volume.

Venus vs Earth

0.95× Earth's diameter

Venus is genuinely close to Earth in size even though its atmosphere and surface conditions are radically different.

What's simplified

Two things this comparison leaves out.

01

Mass isn't shown

Volume ratio is not the same as mass ratio — Saturn is less dense than water, so it has less mass than its volume alone would suggest.

02

Circles, not spheres

The circles compare NASA equatorial diameters. Volume ratios use NASA mean-radius values, so flattened gas giants are not treated as perfect spheres based on equatorial width alone.

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