How don’t we see huge satellite shaped shadows cast on the earth? Wouldn’t satellites be between the sun and the earth meaning that they’d cast a shadow on us?

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How don’t we see huge satellite shaped shadows cast on the earth? Wouldn’t satellites be between the sun and the earth meaning that they’d cast a shadow on us?

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Satellites are relatively close to the surface compared to the source of light (sun) so the shadows would be just a little larger than the actual size of them. Diffraction makes these shadows completely imperceptible.

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