Why do images of earth from space not contain satellites and other space junk?
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Another thing is there are around 34,000 peice of space junk larger then 10 centimeter most of those are tracked and catalog.so we are not talking about the first stage of a Saturn V rocket we are talking here small pecies of things. Each one of these have an orbit that can be tracked and monitored. So say that you have a debris field of space junk at altitude 100 miles above the earth’s surface you would program you satellite to avoid that area. Spacecraft the pilot would do this. So first you are already avoiding the area that junk is in and then you want to take a picture of the earth’s surface you point the camera towards the earth and take the picture while having avoided ever being near the debris in the first place. There have been times when debris has been captured on film. Look up the black night satellite for a good read. Also the camera resolution along with lighting angle of the sun shadows might not be able to illuminate the debris near you. Hope that helps.
*edit due to spelling.
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