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If you don’t know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you’re probably near the Equator, right under the ring.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3156/
Thats so cool! Looks loke the most popular orbit aligns with the equator. Why is the wider “belt” around that line going over and under? Like
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From what I could find that’s probably the band of decommissioned geosynchronous satellites. Apparently they’ll slowly match the orbital plane of the earth around the sun.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/12528/why-is-the-ribbon-of-decommissioned-geosynchronous-satellites-skewed
those are mostly red and orange, so that also confirms the other comments’ guesses: