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Any information on ocean depth in that area? Or did it float? for a while? From NASA article - https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=19
by asdefghyk 1y ago
Any information on ocean depth in that area? Or did it float? for a while?
From NASA article - https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1972-023A https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id...
Apparently, it broke up too 4 pieces soon after launch time and it was the lander that was circling earth for 53 years..
From https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395631/a-soviet-era-space-probe-crashed-back-to-earth-after-more-than-50-years-in-orbit#:~:text=It%20said%20Kosmos%20482%20reentered,a%20post%20on%20its%20website. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395631/a-soviet-era-sp...
"...The Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a Telegram post that the spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere Saturday morning at 2:24 a.m. ET and landed in the Indian Ocean somewhere west of Jakarta, Indonesia. It said Kosmos 482 reentered the atmosphere about 350 miles west of Middle Andaman Island off the coast of Myanmar. ..."
NASA gave the same reentry time and landing location for the spacecraft in a post on its website...."
- RetroTechie 1y ago>Any information on ocean depth in that area? Multiple km's deep in most of that area. That's if it missed the Sunda trench, which goes down to more than 7km in places (hint: it's a subduction zone where tectonic plates slide into Earth's interior. So ehm... deep). Unlike eg. the Gulf of Thailand (max. 85m according to Wikipedia) or large parts of South Chinese Sea, which are very shallow in comparison.