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Earth’s orbit is filling with debris fast enough to risk a chain reaction of collisions, so agencies needed a place to safely bring dead spacecraft down. That solution is Point Nemo, a lonely patch of ...

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Also referred to as the ‘oceanic pole of inaccessibility’ it is the most remote point in the ocean from any landmass. To put it into perspective, the closest option to set foot on land from Point Nemo ...

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Point Nemo, located in the South Pacific, was computed in 1992. It's equidistant (2,688 km) from Ducie, Motu Nui, and Maher Islands. Over 250 deorbited spacecraft have been sunk there since the 1970s.