The Asteroid Belt Is Nothing Like the Movies 🪨🚀

Movies often show the asteroid belt as a dense field of rocks crashing into each other.

But the real asteroid belt is mostly empty space.

The objects are separated by enormous distances, and spacecraft have repeatedly traveled through the region without colliding with an asteroid.

Even all the known asteroids in the main belt combined contain far less mass than Earth's Moon.

It isn't a giant wall of rocks.

It's an enormous, incredibly sparse region of the Solar System.


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