We've left a lot of junk up there.

[stoneaxe]

Orbital debris, 20,000 days worth.

[PonoBill]

Wow, that about gave me a stiffy. Very cool, though the dots are way, way, way too big. At that scale the ISI would be a fraction of a fraction of a pixel. Still...  ...makes you realize that Gravity wasn't that much of a stretch. What a great movie by the way.

[stoneaxe]

From the website....where you can download a screensaver...

It is a simulation of 40,000 of the approx. 150 million items larger than a millimeter.

"Simulation of Space Debris orbiting Earth. Created by the Institute of Aerospace Systems of the Technische Universität Braunschweig and shown at the 3rd Braunschweig Lichtparcours from June 19th to September 30th, 2010.

Color Key: Red: Satellites (operational or defunct)

Yellow: Rocket bodies Green: Mission Related Objects (bolts, lens caps, etc.)

Blue: Solid rocket motor slag White: Fragments from explosion events

Also available as an interactive screen saver for windows and Linux at http://www.days-in-space.de