The Pluto Express - New Horizons Project

[Moby Vic]

Originally Posted by mik

amazing they can send a satellite such a distance with such accuracy,

interesting stuff looking at the space distance,
i stumbled across a little representation of the distances in space last week, it equates the moon to one pixel, and you scroll across through the solar system in scale, and distance counter at the bottom of the page.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/...larsystem.html

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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.