Further evidence that the Earth is surrounded by a growing cloud of space debris: a solar panel on a European satellite now has a hole (still works, though).
It's not just any satellite, either; its one of the new class of Earth observation satellites. This one is called the Copernicus Sentinel 1A.
Here are the before-and-after pictures from the European Space Agency (and their article about the event).
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