Astronaut Tim Peak, who is on the International Space Station, threw on Twitter picture broken glass. As it turned out, the orbiting station collided with space junk. Caused damage to the window with a diameter of 7 millimeters.
it looks scary, but the astronauts ensure that space junk hit in quite thick, quadruple glass. This clash will not affect the safety of persons on International Space Station .
What would happen if, in the International Space Station hit a little bit bigger splinter cosmic debris ? Object to the 1 cm can affect the exclusion of important devices. However, all the crumbs more than 1 cm can destroy individual station modules. If you hit a fragment of greater than 10 cm , ISS disintegrated into small pieces.
The International Space Station has a number of safeguards to protect the astronauts before the collision with such a small space crumbs. It is circling around the Earth for 500 thousand. Waste to 10 cm, while the larger of about 20 thousand. Scientists are under the complete control of their position.
Unusual pictures of British astronaut
Tim Peak is the first British astronaut aboard the International Space Station. Very often on his Twitter, you can admire the unique pictures from the deck of the ISS. There you can find, for example, pictures of the aurora borealis from the unknown inhabitants of the globe perspective.
The astronaut also published a photo of Polish night scene. A trained eye will spot the larger cities.
Radio ZET / MB
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