Jacinta Bowler
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The reason is because I managed to find the data for the Apollo astronauts as they did this kind of experiment with the clocks on board.
So in Apollo 12, there was a gain of 560 microseconds, and Apollo 13 gained 326 microseconds.
I'm going to say I'm going to make an educated guess and say that the Artemis astronauts would be closer to Apollo 12 because that was also a 10-day mission.
Yes, and the reason for that is because of general and special relativity.
I really did enjoy that as well.
Watching the moon as it's doing its thing has been very different the last few days.
Earth is in the middle.
Let's say that we've got a picture, the sun, the moon and the earth in your mind.
We're standing on some portion of the earth and we can see the sun because it is daylight and that is what happens.
However, we can also see the moon from where we are.
Now, when you can see the moon during the daytime, the sun is also hitting the moon at the same time as it's hitting the Earth.
So when those two things line up, which happens quite a bit, you can see the moon during the daytime.
Yeah, another good question, and something that you don't really think about as well.
So the space station, which is the biggest orbital satellite in space, is about the size of a soccer pitch.
Now, that's huge, right?
That's really, really big.
But it's not big enough to see unless the two spacecraft were quite close together.
And in this case, we know that the ISS was quite far away from Orion when it went up.
It's also worth remembering that Earth is really, really big.
So while there's plenty of space objects up there, over 10,000 Starlink satellites alone at this point, the size of Earth is just so big that it's hard to see these things in orbit.