Point Nemo: Where Old Spacecraft Go to Sink

Описание: Point Nemo is the place in the ocean farthest from any land, and more than 250 spacecraft were crashed there on purpose.
Here is how Point Nemo was found, why space agencies aim for it, what scientists pulled out of its seafloor, and where the International Space Station is expected to end up.

Chapters
00:00 The closest people are in space
00:31 Finding the middle of nowhere
01:36 Why we crash spacecraft here
03:04 The ocean desert, and what woke up
03:54 A horror writer's coordinates, and the Bloop
04:46 Not as untouched as it looks
05:11 The space station's last trip

Sources
Point Nemo location and distance (2,688 km; Ducie, Motu Nui, Maher): https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/n...
Pole of inaccessibility: Lukatela 1992, name, ISS overhead, R'lyeh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of...
Spacecraft cemetery: 260+ spacecraft 1971-2016, Mir, Salyut, Progress, ATV, HTV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecr...
Skylab littering fine ($400, paid 2009): https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/...
Skylab fine payment: https://www.plansponsor.com/trivial-p...
Mir re-entry, March 23, 2001: https://www.nasa.gov/history/20-years...
Deorbit of Mir (entry near Fiji): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deorbit...
101.5-million-year-old microbes revived (JAMSTEC, Nature Communications 2020): https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/pre...
R'lyeh coordinates in "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh
The Bloop was an icequake (NOAA): https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/b...
The Bloop (Popular Science): https://www.popsci.com/environment/se...
Microplastics near Point Nemo, Volvo Ocean Race 2018: https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/20...
ISS facts (length, mass, crewed since 2000): https://www.nasa.gov/international-sp...
ISS deorbit vehicle (SpaceX, NASA): https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/07/18...
ISS end-of-life decision timeline (US GAO, 2026): https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-107...

Notes: the Lovecraft section is fiction and is labelled as such. Hydrophone positions in the Bloop section, the Skylab notice card, the drill cutaway and the space-station re-entry at the end are illustrations.
Narrated with an AI voice. Visuals are computer-generated illustrations of real places and events.

Credits
Imagery: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation (NASA Earth Observatory), served by NASA GIBS, part of NASA EOSDIS. Clouds: NASA Visible Earth.
Terrain (Western Australia): AWS Terrain Tiles (Mapzen/Tilezen), incl. SRTM / GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey and ETOPO1 (NOAA).
Coastlines and land: Natural Earth.
Space station 3D model: NASA 3D Resources (NASA / Michael D. Carbajal), re-shaded.
Fonts: Cinzel and Inter (SIL Open Font License).
All other visuals, animation and sound effects: made for this video. No music.

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