What is being measured?
Twice JPL’s 3389.50 km volumetric mean radius. This equivalent-volume diameter differs from equatorial and polar diameters.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- volumetric mean diameter
- Reference value
- 6779.00 km
- Evidence
- Published reference measurement
- In metres
- 6779000.00 m
- Variant
- Equivalent-volume spherical reference
Put the length in perspective
One Mars — mean diameter represents approximately 79,200,000 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Mars — mean diameter · 6779000.00 m
Metre · 1 m · too small to see
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m · too small to see