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Well, it is obviously Earth. But if you meant the nearest planet (excluding Earth), it varies from time to time; at their closest approaches Venus is around 45,000,000 km away to the Earth and Mars is around 80,000,000 km away from the Earth. But they aren't always or even usually at their closest approach to Earth. Whether Earth and the Moon are closer to Venus or to Mars depends on the three planets' relative positions in their orbits. When Mars is at opposition it is only about 80 million km from Earth and the Moon (60 million km if the opposition occurs at Mars' perihelion), and when Venus Is at superior conjunction it is 225 million km away.

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