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by foota 2846 days ago
This made me curious, how wide is Earth's shadow the the height the space station is at?
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I doubt it'd be significantly smaller than the diameter of the earth already. Can't think of how to set it up but the the ISS is only ~250mi above the earth so my guess would be only a couple hundred miles shorter than the earth's diameter at most.
Almost exactly as wide as the Earth.