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Right now you are hovering in space locked to the Sun, unaffected by Earth's gravity.

If you look closely, you will notice the Earth is slowly moving to the left. This is the Earth in orbit around the Sun.

Everything is to scale, this is the speed the Earth moves around the Sun - about 30 km per second - which is really fast. If you watch long enough, the Earth will eventually be completely off the screen.

At a diameter of 12,742 km, it takes the Earth a little over 7 minutes to travel its width in distance, which is about how long it will take to move off the screen.

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