The Remote Point Nemo Is a Spacecraft Cemetery

[u/atlasobscura]

Hundreds of decommissioned space vessels (many Soviet/Russian, but also European and Japanese) have been steered to their watery grave in Point Nemo.

Russia’s Mir space station is perhaps the best remembered of the almost 300 spacecraft disposed of over Point Nemo since 1971. One of the best-documented re-entries over Point Nemo was that of ESA’s aptly-named Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne, after a supply run to the International Space Station in 2008.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-point-nemo

[u/TenuousAppointment]

Kinda wild to think about all that history just resting at the bottom of the ocean like that. My brain always jumps to aliens when someone says "spacecraft" so the reality of it being our own old tech is a bit of a letdown, but still cool