"How Big Is Space" where you can feel the vastness of the universe by flying in the rocket from the earth to the edge of the solar system

Just by scrolling the screen, you can see the extraordinary extent of the solar system, and a site that can get any trivia from little knowledge of the universe to unknown content is "How Big Is Space"is.

How Big Is Space - Interactive version
http://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/


When opening the above link, the rocket is stopped on the ground, and as you scroll down the screen, the rocket moves away from the earth steadily. Note that 1pixelIt seems that it corresponds to 1 meter in the real world.


The layer of clouds starts to appear 6.1 km from the ground, the height of Everest is 8.9 km, the altitude at which the plane fly is 11 km.


The aurora appearing at a low position appears at an altitude of 80 km.


International Space StationHe is flying at an altitude of 420 km. Also, one pixel will switch to 100 meters from here.


As the altitude reaches 500 km, the gravity decreases to 86% on the ground. The nuclear test in the high-rise atmosphere carried out by the United States in 1958 was carried out at a height of 540 km.


Such as satellites that became uncontrollableSpace debrisThe altitude where the gathering is 900 km.


It is an animal for the first time around the earth orbitLeicaIt seems that it flew to the distance of 1660 km from the surface of the earth. When it flew up to this point, an icon that detected radiation appeared at the tip of the rocket. And one pixel is displayed 1 km from here.


When the distance from the earth is 6400 km away, the gravity of the earth will be 25%. You can see that the icon that detected radiation got bigger and the radiation dose increased.


The altitude of GPS satellites is 22,000 km. From the altitude of 20,000 kilometers it will be 1 pixel 10 km display and the scale will gradually increase.


It is a radiation zone composed of protons and electrons captured by the earth's magnetic fieldVan Allen beltThe end of the outer belt is located 60,000 km away from the earth.


The distance between the moon and the earth is 384,000 kilometers, and the distance that human beings have reached from the earth is 400,000 km. And, the radiation icon which has become enormous so far suddenly disappeared. It seems that I ceased to detect radiation from here because I passed through the radiation band Van Allen Belt.


In the 16th centuryTycho BraheThe distance to the sun that we observed is 8 million km.


In the 17th centuryJohannes KeplerThe distance to the sun that we observed is 24 million km.


The distance from Earth to Venus is 38.2 million km.


The distance from Earth to Mars is 55.7 million km.


In 1672Giovanni CassiniThe distance from the earth to the sun is 140 million km, the average distance from the earth to the sun is 150 million km. Jupiter spacecraft launched in 2011JuneauIs flying 215 million kilometers away from the earth as of April 14, 2014. The notation of the map steadily changes and finally it becomes 1 pixel 100 thousand km display, and just a slight scroll will cause the rocket to fly for several laps of the earth.


The closest distance between Earth and Jupiter is 589 million km,Asteroid beltThe distance to the outside of the orbit is 600 million kilometers.


The nearest distance between Earth and Saturn is 1.2 billion km. Saturn explorerCassiniI am flying a place 1.5 km away from the earth.


It fired in 1977VoyagerHe said that he is flying near the boundary of the solar system 19 billion kilometers away from the earth. In addition, one pixel finally became 100,000 km display.