The Perseverance rover is Mars’ first confirmed litterbug.
Without having ever landed a person on the surface of the red planet, humanity has found a way to pollute it. On Wednesday, NASA reported that its rover Perseverance had spotted “something unexpected”—human garbage on Mars. A tweet shared by the rover team showed a small, silvery piece of foil wedged between two rocks in the Jezero crater, which Perseverance has been exploring for ancient signs of life and other biosignatures for over a year.
“It’s a surprise finding this here: My descent stage crashed about 2 km away,” the team wrote in the voice of Perseverance. “Did this piece land here after that, or was it blown here by the wind?” NASA identified the trash as a piece of thermal blanket, part of a rover’s landing gear that is used to control temperature during the nail-biting touch-down phase, often referred to by the agency as “seven minutes of terror.
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