On board the indian Naval Sailing Vessel (INSV) Tarini, two female indian Navy officers reached a new milestone as they sailed Point Nemo. The Naval vessel is traveling across the world with its crew as part of Navika Sagar Parikrama II. Through the three Great Capes, the Naval expedition seeks to make a double-handed round of the globe.
 
On october 2, 2024, Tarini set out from Goa. On december 22, it completed the second stage of the journey by arriving at Lyttelton Port in New Zealand. For the longest portion of the voyage, the crew left Lyttelton early this month to go to Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. This section is around 5,600 nautical miles long.
 
WHAT IS THE POINT NEMO?
Known as the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, Point Nemo, located in the South Pacific Ocean at coordinates 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, is acknowledged as the most distant location on Earth.
 
Known mostly as a satellite cemetery, this little location in the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of kilometers away from any mainland or settlement.
 
NASA and other space organizations have two choices when a spacecraft reaches the end of its usable life: either launch it so far into space that it will never return, or spend the rest of its fuel to bring it back to Earth.
To lessen the quantity of non-functional trash circling the Earth, nasa and other organizations agreed in 1993 to dispose of deceased spacecraft either in a watery burial or in graveyard orbit. For the purpose of crashing these satellites, Point Nemo was selected.
 
Point Nemo, named for Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is a place of mystery and seclusion. "Nemo" means "no one" in Latin, highlighting how isolated it is.
 
Because of its low nutritional content, the ocean around Point Nemo is particularly barren of marine life, making it an unfriendly place for fish and other animals.
 
To keep them from falling over inhabited regions, more than 260 pieces of space debris—including NASA's Skylab and Russia's Mir space station—have been purposefully aimed there.
 
 
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30/01/2025 12:45 PM