VolumeAnother way to measure the size of a planet is to look at its volume - how much space it takes up. Again, we'll use the Earth to measure by. Take a look at the table below. | Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | | 0.06 | 0.85 | 1.0 | 0.15 | 1408.38 | 846.34 | 64.36 | 58.54 | 0.006 | We can see that if Jupiter were hollow, you could fit over 1400 Earths inside of it! Notice that some of the planets are smaller than the Earth; you could fit only a fraction of the Earth inside of them.
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