That’s why they call it Space, because there’s a lot of it.

Wow puts it all in perspective

If this doesn't prove earth is flat, i don't know what will 🤣

Nah

I still can't believe you can get every planet in the solar system in the space between earth n moon!

Found this in response to an r/askscience thread. It's the best photographic image I've seen that depicts just how far away the Moon actually is in relation to the Earth.

Image was taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe on its way to the asteroid Bennu. The salient quality is we have known distances to both bodies (804,000 miles from Earth and 735,000 miles from the Moon), making them almost perpendicular to the line of sight, which in turn makes it a good representation of the actual distance between Earth and the Moon.

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Yup - 30 Earth diameters from the Earth to the Moon. Now imagine being a microscopic astronaut leaving Earth 4x faster than a rifle bullet to bridge that gap.

Edit: CSM + LEM were about 6 meters long. Earth is about 6000 km in diameter, so spacecraft is about 1 millionth of the Earths diameter.

The way Apollo had to calculate trajectory manually and with minimal capabity computers. Amazing feat with no margin for error.

Found this in response to an r/askscience thread. It's the best photographic image I've seen that depicts just how far away the Moon actually is.

Image was taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe on its way to the asteroid Bennu. The salient quality is we have known distances to both bodies (804,000 miles from Earth and 735,000 miles from the Moon), making them almost perpendicular to the line of sight, which in turn makes it a good representation of the actual distance between Earth and the Moon.

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30 earth diameters between earth and moon

How does that ratio compare with other planet/moon pairs?

The scale is Lunar Distance. The value is 1.

thats not very far.. what 4-5 inches?

What's mad is that if you'd never seen the moon in the sky before, going by this picture you'd expect it to look a lot smaller in the sky than it actually does.

Well, it is to scale, for once.

r/earthforscale

Are you being serious?

I got it right!! :)

At least a couple football fields

atleast five 5 feet

I was close but i thought it was in 400k and not 380k

The moon is roughly the same distance as Cleveland Ohio to Baja Hungary.

If anyone is wondering.

I am almost 40 and only due to this picture I realized the distance and the scale. Thanks!

The moon seems big in the sky considering how small and far away it is. Knowing this you'd think it would be a small dot when you looked up.

Found this in response to an r/askscience thread. It's the best photographic image I've seen that depicts just how far away the Moon actually is.

Image was taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe on its way to the asteroid Bennu. The salient quality is we have known distances to both bodies (804,000 miles from Earth and 735,000 miles from the Moon), making them almost perpendicular to the line of sight, which in turn makes it a good representation of the actual distance between Earth and the Moon.

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And to think that that tiny spec in space has enough density to affect currents in our oceans. Incredible

What's even more amazing is to think that you, me, every redditor on here, every person we've ever met in our lives, every place we've ever travelled to, every megacity, town, street, and blade of grass, is on that small little marble at upper left of the photo. (except for the handful orbiting in space, but they're only there temporarily for now anyway).

I mean it’s amazing that it looks so small in volume but has enough density to be able to exert a gravitational force on earth

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No, the distance from the moon to the earth is 39,483,852 km. The distance from the earth to the moon is 39,483,852 km. The moon is 39,483,852 km away from the earth.

The Moon is about 384,800 km away from the surface of the Earth. The surface of earth is about 20,800 km away from the Sun/sunspot area.

The distance between you moving at 1m/s and earth moving at 1m/s is about 17,800 km. So you would have to be moving at least 19,800 km to reach the moon in a single pass.

The moon is about 382,800,000 km away (1 AU, or 1 million km).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_moon#Distance

Here's the answer on how the orbit of the moon is calculated

It's approximately 39,483,852 km (22.9 ly) away from you. That's about as far away as the Moon is from earth at its farthest point away.

To make this a reasonable question for the average redditor, let's make some assumptions.

Assume that the average redditor is not quite 6 feet tall. We'll call him 6'8".

Let's now assume that the moon is about 0.15 kilometers away from the earth.

If a person were standing in a room on earth and was standing on a chair (which would be about 0.35 kilometers from the earth), and the moon were a kilometer away, would the person (6'8") be able to see the moon, because it would look like his chair was about 1.25 km away?

TIL the moon is two inches away from earth

pretty neat video on the distances

I wonder what I was doing on earth when this photo was taken

Look! The earth isn't flat! ��

Found this in response to an r/askscience thread. It's the best photographic image I've seen that depicts just how far away the Moon actually is.

Image was taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe on its way to the asteroid Bennu. The salient quality is we have known distances to both bodies (804,000 miles from Earth and 735,000 miles from the Moon), making them almost perpendicular to the line of sight, which in turn makes it a good representation of the actual distance between Earth and the Moon.

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Plan a trip to Sweden and show them this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System I would do the Sun to Mars on day 1. Plan the rest of the holiday around the rest, only 950Km. Would be a great holiday.

A 29 year old was curious about this too. Google says:

On average the moon is 380,000 km (235,000 miles) from the Earth, a distance of about 110 times its own diameter. A tennis ball (moon) would then have to be 110 x 6.7 cm = 7.37 meters (about 24 feet) from the basketball (earth).

that is no moon, but a fully operational battle station

Isn’t there like a echo commercial where this literally happens?

"Imagine the longest car ride you've ever taken. Now imagine being in that car for three years before you can get out"