Luminiferous Æther

There is a google earth KMZ file that shows the space debris created after the 2007 Chinese test of their anti-satellite technology. Download the file in google earth and you can see the live positions of the thousands pieces of scrap floating in near-space.

[Click here to download the space debris file]

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Header photograph by jared

Story via Google Earth Blog

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