Image: Wikimedia/NASA
After almost 18 years of circling Earth, the International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit on Monday.To remind us all of how completely metal that is, NASA released a video that breaks down what 100,000 trips around the planet actually means. That's handy for me, because I can barely comprehend the distance between my bed and the bathroom most weekend mornings.One hundred thousand orbits around the planet is equal to:
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10 round trips to Mars
Nearly the distance to Neptune
More than 2.6 billion miles