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chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoMy favorite fact is that earth’s atmosphere extends 95,000 miles / 150,000 km beyond the moon.
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chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoMy favorite fact is that earth’s atmosphere extends 95,000 miles / 150,000 km beyond the moon.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I couldn’t find any source for that, but exosphere is considered to extend to 10,000km or 190,000km, from which the latter is about halfway to the moon.
Anyways those numbers are pretty damn tiny even on a small solar system scale