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Space Infographic - Keep scrolling & reach 13 billion miles from earth
- julien_c 14y agoI was surprised that the whole page is only 3 MB. Nice PNG optimization.
- jlgreco 14y agoWould have been nicer, although admittedly much more impractical, if the scale didn't keep on changing. Didn't quite fill me with as much awe as numbers those large should have.
- fhars 14y agoYou want this book: http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/?cat=45 http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/?cat=45
- yen223 14y agoIf the scale didn't change, scrolling down would have taken a lot longer. There was plenty of empty space as it were now.
- columbo 14y ago> impractical I believe if they kept the scale at 10km the page would be 53 kilometers long.
- noirman 14y ago"1,660km: Farthest travelled by a dog" I initially thought this one was a joke. Turns out it wasn't: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Longest_canine_single_flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Lon... There're even stamps produced as a tribute to these space dogs: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Veterok_and_Ugolyok_USSR_stamp.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Veterok_a...
- pserwylo 14y agoThe most amazing thing for me was that Cassini (1.50bn kms) is 300 million miles away from Saturn (1.20bn kms), but still it is orbiting Saturn. Is this just the furthest point of its elliptical orbit? Or is it typical of how we send spacecraft to orbit other planets? Or is it a typo? I ask because according to the infographic, our communications satellites are at a tiny 35,000 kms, whereas 300 million kms is twice the distance from Earth to the Sun...
- jessedhillon 14y agohttps://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mass+of+saturn+in+earth+masses https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mass+of+satu... Saturn is 95x more massive than Earth.
- T-hawk 14y agoThat is wrong. Cassini's apogee (aposelene) is inside the orbit of Iapetus, which is 3.5m km from Saturn. Cassini does not fly by Iapetus in its tours; the orbit was adjusted to do so once but will not happen again. The graphic is representing the distance of Saturn at its closest point to Earth (as it does with Mars and Venus), but the distance of Cassini at its farthest point from Earth. The latter is larger by the diameter of Earth's orbit which is your 300m km difference.
- pserwylo 14y agoThanks. I didn't think it added up :)
- luz42 14y agoI am a fan of visualisations of this kind, starting with Eames' powers of ten, But this didn't impress me. The scale changes too arbitrarily to keep a feeling for the actual distances growing, and the wave line made no sense to me, just irritated. A better take on the subject (regarding overall composition, individual images and music could be better): http://htwins.net/scale2/ http://htwins.net/scale2/
- jayfuerstenberg 14y agoThis info graphic does however help people better understand the asteroid belt ranges. I knew Jupiter gets impacted by a lot of asteroids but had no idea it is technically inside the asteroid belt.
- sneak 14y ago> The scale changes too arbitrarily to keep a feeling for the actual distances growing, Yeah, this is the issue I have with it as well. The whole point of these things is to get a feel for the scale, which is totally impossible if the scale keeps changing.
- dkokelley 14y agoIt took me a second to get the wave line (I thought it had something to do with time relativity, since there was a time scale) but it looks like the line is a literal 'string' of distance measurement just wound back and forth to compress it. If it's an accurate compression, I thought it was pretty clever and impressive.
- japhyr 14y agoIt gave me chills to scroll all the way down, and finally get to the Voyager 1 probe.
- eck 14y agoobligatory xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/482/ http://xkcd.com/482/
- damiankennedy 14y agothat was heaps more meaningful than the bbc one
- jchung 14y agoWhy not flip this upside down and have the user start at the bottom of the page and scroll up?