Using Yahoo! Street map data would, however there is an agreement with Yahoo! that OSM (and infact any similar project IIRC) can derive CC-BY-SA Map data from their aerial imagery.
There are a few reasons why the Mir is so low in orbit. first it takes less energy to resupply a low orbit station, next the drag that causes the mir to slow down causes the space around it to be relatively junk-free (with earth's atmosphere as the vacuum cleaner for that)
Mir orbits earth on a flight path that keeps it alternate between 54N and 54S (IIRC) between 310 and 400 km above ground (sea level). at this altitude Mir travels around earth several times a day. A ground plot looks a bit like a sine curve, and is slightly displaced on each turn. (sorry I am lacking a bit of vocabulary here) you can see for yourself at "Where is Mir?"
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Using Yahoo! Street map data would, however there is an agreement with Yahoo! that OSM (and infact any similar project IIRC) can derive CC-BY-SA Map data from their aerial imagery.
There are a few reasons why the Mir is so low in orbit. first it takes less energy to resupply a low orbit station, next the drag that causes the mir to slow down causes the space around it to be relatively junk-free (with earth's atmosphere as the vacuum cleaner for that) Mir orbits earth on a flight path that keeps it alternate between 54N and 54S (IIRC) between 310 and 400 km above ground (sea level). at this altitude Mir travels around earth several times a day. A ground plot looks a bit like a sine curve, and is slightly displaced on each turn. (sorry I am lacking a bit of vocabulary here) you can see for yourself at "Where is Mir?"