Space Exploration Informational Graphics

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Some informational graphics about space exploration and the universe.

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50 Years of Space Exploration
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The Universe *credit: National Geographic
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Asteroid Belt
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[Garuda]

Nice images, thanks!

[rdunk]

Asteroid Belt
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Hi U.N.C.L.E! Interesting pics, especially, for me, the asteroid belt. Quite frankly, I just haven't paid much attention to it. But if this pic is fairly representative of its real presence, then it really is quite an impressive thing. I never realized just how big and thick the asteroid belt is, with stuff. Just using the known Earth to Sun distance for scale, the asteroid belt would be about 120 million miles wide, and the diameter of the belt circle is about 500 million miles. So, using pi x d, that would make the size of the asteroid belt about 120 million miles wide X 1.5 billion miles long, and just look - - it really is just full of stuff. That is a lot of whatever - "may be gold in them-there astroids"! :biggrin2:

Of course, when one takes this belt from "thumbnail size" to full size, then it would go from looking very thick, to looking very very very thin!!! :ufo: