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See decades of space debris swarm the Earth in 60 seconds: Video reveals how the planet's orbit has become a 'junkyard'

  

It is difficult to keep track of just how much stuff we throw away each day, but imagine trying to capture that on a global scale, for almost sixty years, and in space. 

A new video has achieved this staggering feat by visualising decades of space debris as it accumulates around the Earth.

Dr Stuart Grey, a lecturer at University College London, generated the visualisation which captures the accumulation from 1957 through to 2015.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3380183/See-decades-space-junk-swarm-Earth-60-seconds-Video-reveals-debris-orbiting-planet-increased-1957.html#ixzz3wmV7R0Af
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