The photos of RV Investigator can be deceiving when it comes to the size of the ship. To fit the whole research vessel into the frame, you have to stand a long way back and it’s rare we get a close up of someone standing right at the base of the ship, but we finally have one.
So taking into account that an average person is about the size of two steel blocks, have a look at the photos below of Investigator under construction, and look for two blocks to make the comparison.
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- An artist concept shows the Kepler-10 system, home to two rocky planets. In the foreground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. Image: NASA
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- Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9v Image: ESO
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- Artists’s cartoon view gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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