i’d say being in orbit is arguably the least on a planet can be, since an orbit is specifically continuing to miss falling onto the planet.
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hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoKarman line could be a good limit sure, but I think the orbit still kinda makes sense to include “on the planet”.
Say for example if the apartheid baby gets his Mars colony thing going, from Earth’s perspective it wouldn’t make much difference if a person is standing on Mars surface or on the orbit - we could say that the person is on Mars.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They would be in Mars orbit, but not planetside. “At Mars” might be a middle ground designator.