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Solar and Planetary Temperatures
Temperatures you usually have a hard time finding
Information about the Earth:
Earth's interior temperature: 7500 degrees Kelvin
radius of the Earth: 6.37 x 103 km
mass of the Earth: 5.97 x 1024 km
radius of Earth’s orbit around the sun: 1.50 x 108
km
Information about the Sun:
sunspot temperatures: 3800 degrees Kelvin
photosphere: 5800 degrees Kelvin
interior of the sun: 15.6 million degrees
Kelvin
solar energy output: 386 x 1018
megawatts
pressure in the interior of the sun: 250
billion atmospheres
700
million tons of hydrogen is converted to 695 million
tons of helium per second.
radius of the sun: 6.95 x 105
km
mass of the sun: 2.00 x 1030 kg