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If you don’t know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you’re probably near the Equator, right under the ring.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3156/
Hey I am into this! Check out this site I built for tracking satellites!
https://spacebook.com/explorer
It is comforting knowing that our planet is protected by a dense layer of floating garbage. 🫡🚀🗑️
Your use of the word “dense” there is a little misleading. At the default view the scale of each satelite pixel looks roughly 20km wide.