Space Debris (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Space Debris

Caption

A computer-generated image representing space debris as could be seen from high Earth orbit. The two main debris fields are the ring of objects in geosynchronous Earth orbit and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit.

Credit

NASA

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