Title:
'Lost in Waste'

SPL Reference Number:
S800/038

Credit:
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption:
Computer artwork showing space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO, up to 2000 kilometres altitude) and geostationary Earth orbit (GEO, around 35,000 kilometres altitude). Space debris includes thousands of inactive satellites, fragments of broken up spacecraft and equipment lost by astronauts. This artwork is based on density data, but is not to scale.