Pat Gray
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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That's, I don't know, 15 billion miles.
Why don't you just say 15 billion miles?
It makes it sound like it's so much further away.
So I'm done with you at that point because I'm so disgusted.
This spacecraft will be 121,000 kilometers above the Earth.
Wow.
Wow, that seems like a lot.
It's an orbit the European Space Agency says will allow the mission to observe the northern lights nonstop for 45 hours at a time for the first time ever.
And it's going to be able to fly over the South Pole, allowing it to transmit data to the Bernardo O'Higgins Research Station.
That's great.
In Antarctica.
Is it though?
I mean, because I feel like, you know, I know the smile and the solar wind magnetosphere and the longosphere link explorer, and it's a joint mission between the ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
I don't like it.
You don't like it?
No, I don't.
I don't like it.
Because of the agencies involved?
Space is ours.
Yeah.