Space Junk from the Moon to the Midwest
Special | 41m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Lisa Ruth Rand discusses what happens to the junk left behind from space missions.
Lisa Ruth Rand, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison, discusses what happens to the things we leave in space. From satellites that no longer send information to errant screws that were left behind, space junk can reenter the earth’s atmosphere and pose significant risk to people on the ground.
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Space Junk from the Moon to the Midwest
Special | 41m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Lisa Ruth Rand, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison, discusses what happens to the things we leave in space. From satellites that no longer send information to errant screws that were left behind, space junk can reenter the earth’s atmosphere and pose significant risk to people on the ground.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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