When Earth is shrunk to a schoolroom globe, the Moon would actually sit 30 feet away — and Mars would be a full mile distant. Textbooks can't fit those proportions on a single page, so they compress cosmic distances into misleading diagrams. Neil deGrasse Tyson argues this visual cheating has baked a permanent misperception into generations of students.
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