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Australia is wider from coast to coast than the Moon’s equatorial diameter

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If you struggle with visualizing cosmic scale, look no further than the outback. From coast to coast, the massive red landmass stretches completely further across than the total equatorial diameter of our shiny lunar neighbor.

Australia is wider from coast to coast than the Moon’s equatorial diameter
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