Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031.

As Earth’s orbit fills with dangerous debris, obsolete spacecraft are deliberately sent to the most remote place on the planet. This is the story of Point Nemo, the space cemetery beneath the Pacific, ...

Point Nemo sits quietly in the southern Pacific, marked on maps but rarely thought about. It is not a destination in any usual sense. There are no shi.

Point Nemo is the most isolated location on Earth, sitting deep in the Pacific Ocean, farther from any human settlement than anywhere else on the planet.

It's been called the "loneliest place on earth" — a location so remote it would take days to traverse the 1,670 miles (2,700 kilometers) of ocean between this point and the nearest patch of land — ...

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The world is a big place. So big that there are many obscure locations most of us will never hear of, much less visit. As a matter of fact, scientists have mapped out the most inaccessible areas to ...

Point Nemo, located in the South Pacific, was computed in 1992. It's equidistant (2,688 km) from Ducie, Motu Nui, and Maher Islands. Over 250 deorbited spacecraft have been sunk there since the 1970s.