If you have seen the Hollywood sci-fi movie, Gravity, you will know the dangers of space debris.

A real life Gravity is in the making in the skies above us.

Lewis is from UK Space Agency on the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).

Explosion of US military satellite has led to hazardous smaller space debris which is risky to spacecrafts

By creating the debris cloud produced by the explosion as a fluid, this map was created.

The fluid used here changed its density under the effect of the atmospheric drag.

They are mainly U.S. and Russian satellites in sun-synchronous or polar orbits.

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source: www.techworm.net