Another question often raised by children is why space probes aren’t destroyed when they go through the asteroid belt. In the movie Star Wars, our heroes are almost hit by the huge chunks of rock flying around. While the Hollywood portrayal is thrilling, fortunately, it does not truly represent the density of the asteroid belt, which is mainly an empty vacuum with occasional rocks passing by. Future miners and settlers who brave outer space in search of new lands will, for the most part, find the asteroid belt relatively easy to navigate.
I honestly never thought about the relative density of asteroids in the asteroid belt before... of course this makes sense given the vastness of space but I definitely did imagine it differently!
