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Saturday, December 7, 2013

PICTURE OF SPACE DEBRIS - WHEREVER HUMANS GO, THEY LEAVE DEBRIS AND POLLUTION BEHIND

 
German photographer Michael Najjar, a "certified civilian astronaut" who has a ticket to go to space on board Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo in 2014, created an image showing all the human debris circling the Earth.
 
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.
 
Floating debris could also lead to the kinds of problems as depicted in the films Gravity and Mission to Mars, putting the safety of spacecraft at risk.  

See picture here - http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/space-pollution-every-known-piece-space-debris-orbiting-earth.html

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