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Space pollution: Here’s every known piece of space debris orbiting Earth
Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:41
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In space, no one can hear you litter
The image above was created by German photographer Michael Najjar, a “certified civilian astronauts” who has a ticket to go to space on board Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in 2014. He titled the piece “Space Debris I”, and created it with the help of the Institute of Aerospace Systems at the Braunschweig University of Technology, the world leading institute for space debris tracking. “Based on a data archive, each spherule in the picture represents a real existing object orbiting in space,” Najjar says. As you can see, space isn’t so empty, at least not in Earth’s orbit.
Bill Bard says:
Talk about shitting on your own doorstep.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/06/space-pollution-heres-every-known-piece-of-space-debris-orbiting-earth/
