SciShow Space: How Climate Change Is Creating More Space Junk

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: You’ve probably heard a lot about how climate change affects life on our planet's surface, but did you know a warming climate can also affect objects in space? SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://scied.ucar.edu/carbon-dioxide-absorbs-and-re-emits-infrared-radiation https://scied.ucar.edu/longcontent/greenhouse-effect https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253698249_Vibrational_relaxation_of_CO22_by_atomic_oxygen https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0273117781904178 https://www.nasa.gov/centers/wstf/site_tour/remote_hypervelocity_test_laboratory/micrometeoroid_and_orbital_debris.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/14/spacex-oneweb-and-amazon-to-launch-thousands-more-satellites-in-2020s.html https://spacenews.com/op-ed-space-traffic-management-implementation-and-enforcement/ https://sma.nasa.gov/news/articles/newsitem/2020/02/07/now-available-february-2020-edition-of-odqn https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Clean_Space/ESA_commissions_world_s_first_space_debris_removal https://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/hozon.htm https://spacenews.com/u-s-satellite-destroyed-in-space-collision/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474706502000335 Image sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/28567825@N03/3347077014 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS17-148-22714_crop.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/iss_b_roll.html https://images.nasa.gov/details-jsc2015m000266 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/a-drawing-of-a-garbage-truck-against-an-orange-background-gm182046775-27574172 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/broadcast-telecommunication-icons-isometric-gm1201210015-344390982 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AS17-148-22714_crop.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/communication-satellite-flying-orbital-spaceflight-around-earth-spacecraft-space-gm1137514162-303367473 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/a-drawing-of-a-garbage-truck-against-an-orange-background-gm182046775-27574172 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/structure-of-an-atom-gm1006529372-271645625 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/education-poster-earth-atmosphere-vector-gm608637128-104372407


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