File talk:Animation of Herschel Space Observatory trajectory around Earth.gif

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This doesn't make any sense. The distances here go up to 300x10^6km, which is far enough away that the satellite is diametrically opposite the Sun; yet the Sun isn't visible in this diagram. The orbit is heliocentric, so it makes absolutely no sense to display it as being centered on the Earth; the orbit (for most of the time at least) is centered on the Sun, so half of the apparent "motion" in the satellite we see here is actually just the motion of the Earth. This page for the Tesla Roadster makes far more sense, which is interesting given that it's produced by the same author apparently? --RobertStar20 (talk) 10:41, 3 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]