What's Happening When You're in a Low Orbit?

The barba picola, the belter ship, is at a very low orbit. So what happens when you're a low orbit is you're hitting the atmosphere. Goes out very far from the planet, and it goes out much further than we think it does. All of this stuff just for the scientists, the one scientist among our listeners. All o this stuff is accelerated. It wouldn't happen this quickly, but for dramatic reasons, you speed things up.