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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I had the opportunity once to see Curiosity modeled in a VR environment as if you were standing on Mars next to it and I remember how very surprised I was at how big it was.

As a fun side note now that you've jogged my memory. That same demo also had a model of the Rosetta spacecraft orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. For whatever reason it was sized so that the ~~asteroid~~ comet was about the size of a cat and I will never forgot watching that itty bitty little satellite orbit around that odd shaped ~~asteroid~~ comet in front of me.

https://www.aam-us.org/2016/02/23/experiments-in-virtual-reality-at-the-museum-of-flight/