2006-09-09 07:42:43 · 11 answers · asked by themanwithnoname 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
As others have said, there's actually quite a lot of space between the asteroids - it is not like they show in the movies! In fact, when the Galileo space craft when to Jupiter, they actually had to adjust its trajectory a little so that it could get close to an asteroid and take some pictures!
2006-09-09 13:55:07 · answer #1 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The everyday tree is 99% Air.Bad example.
Anyway , Its not like you see in movies . Its like a space ship avoiding the planets in our own solar system.. What you see from the telescopic pictures is millions of miles away. Far enough to be condensed into a single view. Like looking at the Earth from the Moon. But close up we can't even see down the street.
2006-09-09 14:57:05 · answer #2 · answered by grainy33 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
While having a great deal of asteroids it is not so full that something as small as a satelite could not safely travel through it unharmed. Think of a road that has, on average, one car per hour going down it; if you were to randomely, with your eyes closed, cross this street it is very unlikely that would get hit. However, if you hung out in this street for longer periods of time it becomes very likely that you would eventually get hit.
2006-09-09 14:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by bruinfan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Asteriod belt is 99.9942% empty space.
2006-09-09 14:47:32 · answer #4 · answered by Holden 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just by a pure luck.... While it is true asteroid belt has higher density of smaller objects, the distances between them are still quite large, often as large as the distance between earth and the moon. The probability of one of them hitting a small spacecraft is small.
2006-09-09 14:47:20 · answer #5 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they don't. we never went to the moon. there's a thing called the van allen radiation belt just outside the earth's atmosphere. humans can't go beyond that point unless enclosed in lead.
2006-09-13 14:03:59 · answer #6 · answered by Felix Arcanus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I think the stuff they make the probes out of is pretty tough stuff. Write to NASA and see what they say.
2006-09-09 15:48:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but how about the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud :o)
2006-09-09 14:53:14 · answer #8 · answered by Peter W 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deflector shields up.
2006-09-09 14:48:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They use a map
2006-09-09 14:49:22 · answer #10 · answered by luket 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋