Curiously what came up - and caught my eye - were images of space debris ...
Screen-shots from an ESA video [at about 09:20 min.] |
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