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English Deutsch Français Marker Distance above earth (km) Distance from center of earth (km)
Earth Erde Terre Blue/brown image 0 6370
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Low Earth Orbit Orbite terrestre basse Cyan area 160 to 2,000 6,530 to 8,370
Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Medium Earth Orbit Orbite moyenne de la terre Yellow area 2,000 to 34,780 8,370 to 41,150
International Space Station (ISS) Internationale Raumstation Station spatiale internationale Red dotted line 500 6,870
Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites Globales Positionsbestimmungssystem Système de positionnement mondial Green dash-dot line 20,230 26,600
Geostationary Orbit Geostationäre Umlaufbahn Orbite géostationnaire Black dashed line 35,794 42,164


Description
English: A scale diagram showing earth and various orbits above it.
Deutsch: Skalendiagramm der Erde und verschiedener Umlaufbahnen.
Français : Diagramme échelle montrant la terre et des orbites.
Source

Created by Commons user Mike1024 based on Image:Earth clip art.svg, which in turn was sourced from http://openclipart.org/people/yeKcim/yeKcim_earth.svg
Date

16 January 2008
Author

Image of earth: yeKcim on the Open Clip Art Library. Scale orbits: Mike1024
Permission
(Reusing this image)

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Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

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current23:19, 16 January 20083,009×3,009 (19 KB)Mike1024 ({| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- ! English !! Deutsch !! Français !! Marker !! Distance above earth (km) |!!Distance from center of earth (km) |- ! Earth !! Erde !! Terre | Blue/brown image || 0 |)
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