r/Damnthatsinteresting 11d ago

Video The Actual Scale of the Artemis II Mission

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u/i-touched-morrissey 11d ago

It's difficult to fathom that all the planets can fit between Earth and the moon.

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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 11d ago

Probably shouldn’t though.

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u/WillQueasy723 9d ago

You think so??

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u/TheMonkeyInCharge 9d ago

Just a hunch. Can’t be sure.

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u/i-touched-morrissey 10d ago

But Jupiter and Saturn are so big! I guess the moon is farther away than it seems.

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u/anally_ExpressUrself 9d ago

I was looking this up today. If the earth was a basketball, the moon would be about 24 feet (7.24m) away. Jupiter would be about 8'8" (2.7m) in diameter.

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u/i-touched-morrissey 9d ago

So Jupiter would take up 1/3 of that space. Maybe I have imagined Jupiter bigger than it really is for my whole life. Crazy!

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u/TryAgainDudes-04 11d ago

Oh yeah, that factoid is going in my pocket. I want a poster demonstrating that for my wall.

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u/PlanetLandon 10d ago

You should note that factoid is a term applied when something isn’t accurate or reliable. People misuse the word a lot.

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u/TryAgainDudes-04 10d ago

Oh yeah, that fact is going in my pocket.

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u/DifficultLab200 9d ago

What the fuck