Space: the final junkyard? 🌌 Did you know we have 12,000 tons of debris orbiting Earth? 🌍🛰️
NewsletterAt first glance, the Earth’s orbit and oceans could not be more different. The former is located on theof the planet’s atmosphere and beyond, while the latter surrounds all the landmasses around the globe.
Imogen Napper, a marine scientist at the University of Plymouth in England, says the high seas and the Earth’s orbit are both. In other words, the resources are shared and accessible by all — with no single governing country or power.published in, Napper and her co-authors highlighted the urgency to protect the Earth’s orbit. They noted how the exploitation of what appears to be a free resource — the ocean — has led to environmental harm that no one takes accountability for.
“Taking into consideration what we have learnt from the high seas,” Napper says, “we can avoid making the same mistakes and work collectively to prevent a tragedy of the commons in space.”, there are around 36,500 space debris objects greater than 10 centimeters. Another million are between 1 and 10 centimeters, and more than 130 million pieces are between a millimeter and a centimeter in size.
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