Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens

Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by bartread on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:04AM (#32263190)

That link just opens a standard map of the whole globe in a flat projection - I think you might need to use the sharing link generator to share what you intended.

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by simias on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:14AM (#32263248)

I think that's what they wanted? Although it's still a strange way to communicate that given that it'll change wildly based on screen resolution. A screenshot would probably be a better idea.

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by abhaynayar on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:15AM (#32263260)

I think the link intended to show 10 km/pixel, to give an idea of what it would look like. It shows a scale of length 1000 km to me, if it is 10 km/pixel then there should be a 100 pixels within that length, which seems okay as a sanity check. But yeah, it depends on the screen resolution as well.

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by rchard2scout on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:14AM (#32263254)

I'm not sure if it's possible to easily share the correct settings in an URL, but:

In the Layers menu, set it to Satellite, Globe view, and turn off Labels. Then, zoom until the earth is ca. 1275 pixels wide

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by pmayrgundter on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:23AM (#32263930)

Thanks, fixed!

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