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    • Debris plot of the objects being tracked in low Earth orbit.
    Rights: Public domain Published 27 March 2013 Size: 260 KB Referencing Hub media

    This is a debris plot of the objects being tracked in low Earth orbit – the region of space within 2,000 km of the Earth’s surface.

    Image courtesy of NASA.

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