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Cycle slower than the speed of light

YOUR MISSION

On this trail, when you cycle at your normal speed you're travelling at about ten times the speed of light. Can you travel ten times slower than you normally would without falling off your bike? Record your sub-light speed travel and send us the evidence.

Location mission: You will need to visit this place
Mission cluster: A group of missions

Mission ID: 3410 Lat: 53.84698 Lng: -1.05777
Tags: cycling bicycle active space planets countryside

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Completed: 8

This cycle route has models of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto that are to scale both in size and how far apart they are. At this scale, you travel over 500,000km with one step!

Cycle Closer to Nature is supported by Arla's Kids Closer to Nature campaign and Sustrans. Search for this location on the National Cycle Network here.

BONUS QUESTION

Want to collect your bonus points? Follow these three steps:

1. Make a Mission:Report. This can be a single photo, drawing, sound track, video or just a description of what happened. Show us that you've really done this mission.

2. Issue us with your Mission:Report before you enter this mission as complete.

> 13 or over? Post your report as a comment below or on your explorer log.
> 12 or under? Email your Mission:Report to us at hello@missionexplore.net.
Make sure you include the mission title in your email!

3. We will email you with the secret code to unlock your bonus points.

When cycling at less than the speed of light, be careful that you don't get in the way of other cyclists or pedestrians.

Risk overall: Low. This should be easy but take care.

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Rewards for this mission

York Cycle Explorer

Mission points

Question points

250

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