Curiously what came up - and caught my eye - were images of space debris ...
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| Screen-shots from an ESA video [at about 09:20 min.] |
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| From: Debris in motion (video) |
Computer generated images of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. [...] not scaled to Earth. These images provide a good visualization of where the greatest orbital debris populations exist. Source: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/photogallery/beehives.html
!["[...] Cascading collisions between resident objects and fragments of prior collisions cause the debris to increase" even if no more debris is added to space. "This scenario indicates that the critical density of objects in the low earth orbit has already been exceeded. [...]" Transcribed from ESA video on space debris (see link below) [at about 09:00 min.]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtnt9DkO69oSJZ362E0aXS3geGeOGsDebSzeLOxQOd3PPjCn9BYH78hppka6kRrL8N5-UesoKi49RNBhdkwqd4RgZutMC4uPgh7BXuH4ZZbDN5zMJefWEU8REc1QaB5sYjKH3cfYBy_dgK/s640/esa+all.png)


