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1. einpoklum · 1790716138 · focus · HN ↗

   Wow, speedy and convenient! Well done!

   Some insights:

   * There is sooo much space debris! Dead sattelites and rocket bodies

   * Starlink put up a hell of lot of satellites, too.

   * There is a pretty dense sphere of items around the earth at geo-stationary orbit, a bit like a mantle; but most of all in a circle on that sphere.

   1. dylan604 · 1790720230 · focus · HN ↗

      Everyone talks about the ringed planets, but I've never seen Earth mentioned of having a ring. I've also never seen mentioned that the rings were not man made as a qualifier. Yet, there it is, very clearly visible when zoomed out.

      One of the things that I noticed was how far away Parker was from the sun. I know it has a crazy orbit, but seeing it at a scale reference just emphasizes how its orbit is complicated.

      Also, checking out the platforms around L2. Euclid and JWST are no where near each other which again, just emphasizes how much space there is in...space.

      1. zamadatix · 1790730967 · focus · HN ↗

         Jupiter&#x27;s rings, which are thin enough we didn&#x27;t really notice until we sent a spacecraft there, have ~5,000,000,000,000 tons of material (plus or minus several orders of magnitude). The total mass we have ever launched to orbit is a good portion less than 100,000 tons and the vast majority of that is not found in the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geostationary_ring" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geostationary_ring

         The only reason it appears like a ring here is the marker for each satellite or piece of debris is the size of a large city.

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