With all these pics from the Artemis, including ones from the earth; why don’t we see any satellites and other stuff that circles the earth? Are they too small to see at these distances? Still, i would expect some of them to at least glint in the sunlight.

Update; thanks for confirming it’s indeed that they are too small to see. Also, i didn’t think of the pixels, good point.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    The biggest satellite is like what, 30 metres across with solar panels?* Earth’s diameter is ~13 000 km, that’s 400 000 times larger. A satellite might as well be a grain of sand.

    * Biggest unmanned artificial satellite that I could find info on is the Hubble telescope, which is 13m long; its solar panels are not longer than the telescope tube.