Space Debris video
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 6:29AM
Randy in earth, planets, scale, space, starship, timeline, video, world
Sticking with the Space Debris theme, the ESA (European Space Agency) has this
hi-res video on their website showing how crowded Earth orbit has become from 1968-2000. Same issue as the image yesterday, that the objects are not to scale. At this scale you would expect constant collisions, but at actual scale you wouldn't be able to see any objects at all.
In this animation, catalogued space debris are shown accumulating around Earth in 4-year increments, including payloads, rocket bodies, and fragments. While the debris objects are not shown to scale, the representation of their density is accurate.
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