Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration. This article was originally featured on The Conversation. People have been exploring the surface of Mars ...

Either way, finding human trash on Mars is cause for concern, even if the build-up isn’t drastic quite yet. As NASA and other space agencies prepare for manned missions to the planet, ...

Subtract the weight of the currently operational craft on the surface — 6,306 pounds (2,860 kg) — and you are left with 15,694 pounds (7,119 kg) of human debris on Mars. Why does trash matter?

50 Years Worth of Trash. The last 50 years have seen 14 different countries send 18 human-made objects to Mars, according to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

Further, it doesn’t include all the human trash on Mars, such as orbiters or landing debris. “Here is an example to make this clearer,” Kilic tells Treehugger.

Mars is Littered With 15,694 Pounds of Human Trash From 50 Years of Robotic Exploration Discarded pieces of landing gear, crashed spacecraft and wear and tear have produced debris that is now ...

Scientist Works Out There Is Over 15,000 Pounds of Human Trash on Mars. Published Sep 21, 2022 at 9:52 AM EDT Updated Sep 21, 2022 at 10:53 AM EDT. By .

Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars, or the modern equivalent of Clovis points—treasured artifacts ...

Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth : Read more Fasle. Humans and apes evolved in Europe, and migrated INTO Africa, not the way you state.

Are human spacecraft, landers, rovers and other space-exploration debris little more than trash littering the surface of Mars, or the modern equivalent of Clovis points—treasured artifacts ...

Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's first attempts at interplanetary exploration.