Giant Leaps 1,000 km

106 meters = 1,000 kilometers

Large portions of the continents become visible.

Thousands of artificial satellites are in orbit around the Earth at this height: satellites for communications, environmental sensing, weather prediction, global positioning systems, and scientific research.

From this perspective, they are brighter than many of the stars in the background. Of course, satellites don't emit light on their own; we see them because they reflect light from the sun.