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Interactive graphic: Every active satellite orbiting earth
- Mindless2112 10y agoSee also: http://stuffin.space/ http://stuffin.space/
- unwind 10y agoThat's just gorgeous. It shows velocity with a unit of "km" rather than "km/s" which was confusing, but still very cool. This is what I expected from the original article. Thanks.
- ralfd 10y agoAnd every little point moves? This is really amazing simulation/model.
- metafunctor 10y agoVery cool! Didn't work for me on Chrome 53.0 on OS X, for some reason. All I could see was the earth, no dots at all. Hovering around with the pointer would show me some blue orbits.
- mdrzn 10y agoSame here, Chrome 53.0.2785.116 on OSx 10.10.2 shows just the Earth, and when I hover on a dot it shows the trajectory.
- contravariant 10y agoCould be a coincidence, but did they actually keep track of the current position of the sun? That's an impressive attention to detail.
- kixpanganiban 10y agoThis is probably the most gorgeous article I've seen from Quartz yet. I am deeply amazed.
- perilunar 10y agoNASA J-Track 3D: https://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html https://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/3d/JTrack3D.html
- joezydeco 10y agoI came to suggest J-Track, and it's nice to see the page still active after over a decade, but I think stuffin.space is an excellent update. It looks like this page doesn't even work for me. And even if it did, the Java plugin was old. Looks like NASA never updated it as promised in 2012.
- wanderer2323 10y agoKessler collapse when
- mjmasn 10y agoEaster egg mode: press Q once you've started the animation.
- jlewallen 10y agoIf you didn't notice, try the easter egg: "To see the relative speed of orbits (and possibly melt your browser), press Q and then the space bar. "
- 6DM 10y agoKnowing that the way an object orbits the planet is essentially infinitely falling toward it, but missing, I thought this was incredible: "At an altitude of 35,786 km, satellites orbit at the same speed the earth turns, once every 24 hours, hanging usefully and lucratively over a single location to transmit and receive information." I knew the earth spins fast, but putting those two facts together was really cool. Sitting here, I'm thinking how did I miss this before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit