The height and depth and breadth a man can reach -6,378.1 km : 6,0000.0C : Earth core (radius) -12.2 km : 180.0C : Deepest hole drilled, Kola Superdeep Borehole, Russia, 1994-08 -10.9 km : -1.5C : Deepest ocean depth, Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean -3.7 km : 2.0C : Average ocean depth -0.3 km : : Deepest scuba dive, Ahmed Gabr, Red Sea, Egypt, 2014 -0.2 km : : Deepest free dive, Herbert Nitsch, Spetses, Greece, 2007 ======== 0.0 km : === 15.0C : Troposphere (sea level) start ================== 0.0 km : 15.0C : Highest CO2 balloon 0.1 km : 14.3C : Tallest trees, Sequoia sempervirens 0.3 km : 13.0C : Low stratus clouds start 1.0 km : 8.5C : Middle altocumulus clouds start, 1.5 km : : Cruising altitude of Goodyear blimp 3.0 km : -4.5C : High cirrus clouds start 8.8 km : -42.2C : Tallest mountain, Mount Everest, Mahalangur Himal, China 9.0 km : : Highest blimp, Jimu 1, China, 2022-05-15 11.0 km : -60.0C : Stratosphere start 11.5 km : -60.5C : Cruising altitude of passenger planes 39.0 km : : Highest free fall, Felix Baumgartner, helium balloon, Roswell, New Mexico, USA, 2012-10-14 50.0 km : : Mesosphere (ozone layer) start 53.7 km : : Highest helium balloon, Taiki-Cho, Hokkaido, Japan, 2013-03-06 80.0 km : : Aurora Borealis/Australis start 85.0 km : : Thermosphere start 180.0 km : : Low earth orbiting satellites 402.0 km : : Altitude of ISS orbit, Kazakhstan, 1998-11-20 500.0 km : : Aurora Borealis/Australis end 500.0 km : : Highest monkey in space, Gordo died, 1958-12-13 600.0 km : : Exosphere start 1,000.0 km : 35,000.0C : INNER VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT START, Explorer 1, 1958-01-31 1,373.0 km : : Highest earth orbit of 1960s, Gemini XI, 1966-09-16 2,000.0 km : : Medium earth orbiting satellites 12,000.0 km : : INNER VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT END 13,000.0 km : 35,000.0C : OUTER VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT START 35,786.0 km : : High earth orbiting satellites 60,000.0 km : : OUTER VAN ALLEN RADIATION BELT END 384,000.0 km : 127.0C : Closest distance to lunar orbit 56,000,000.0 km : -63.0C : Closest distance to Mars