Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#Metal #pollution from a #rocket reentry detected for the first time
Such pollutants could degrade the ozone layer as #space debris accumulates and falls to Earth
Each piece of equipment has a planned lifetime of about five years, after which it burns up in the upper #atmosphere, releasing metals such as lithium, aluminum and copper, all of which may catalyze chemical reactions that destroy ozone and have other adverse effects.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rocket-reentry-metal-pollution-detected
https://archive.ph/ZLpN6
Such pollutants could degrade the ozone layer as #space debris accumulates and falls to Earth
Each piece of equipment has a planned lifetime of about five years, after which it burns up in the upper #atmosphere, releasing metals such as lithium, aluminum and copper, all of which may catalyze chemical reactions that destroy ozone and have other adverse effects.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rocket-reentry-metal-pollution-detected
https://archive.ph/ZLpN6
