We have sent 18 human-made objects to Mars. During years of Martian exploration, we have left behind many pieces of debris on the red planet’s surface.
Author: Cagri Kilic (Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Robotics, West Virginia University)
Republished from an article by The Conversation with permission from Cagri Kilic.
Original article: https://theconversation.com/mars-is-littered-with-15-694-pounds-of-human-trash-from-50-years-of-robotic-exploration-188881
Title: Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
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In the video only NASA missions are listed. Also Russia, China, Great Britain, Japan and India have already left their garbage there! 😑
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_der_Marsmissionen
We should put a message for aliens on the 5 ancint space landers and 5 ancent rovers as ancint relic for us ancint space landers and rovers.
2:25 The thumb nail shows beagle 2 mars lander as an ancient relic so the space landers and the 5 rovers are ancient relic for use.
Give it time and it’ll be Starbucks cups and McDonald’s boxes.
Oh, I hope not. 😂
Guess trashing the moon wasn’t enough now we are trashing MARS!
They are not trash they are ancient dissent parts of the rovers and the landers.
No Overnight Parking…
Seriously? Wow
2:25 yeah historical relics not trash they have done so much for us it is better to call them ancient relics and ancient landers and ancient rovers. The 9 ancient and historical relics of the landers and the rovers.