More than 15,000 kilos of garbage left on humans Anthem Not a single person has set foot on the red planet in the last 50 years.
Çağrı Kılıç, postdoctoral research fellow in the field of robotics in Batı Virginia The university analyzed the mass of all rovers and orbiters sent to Mars and subtracted the weight of what is currently in operation, resulting in 15,694 pounds of debris.
The garbage includes discarded equipment, inactive spacecraft, and those that have fallen to the surface, particularly the Soviet Union’s Mars orbiter 2, which made an emergency landing in 1971.
Not only are humans polluting another planet anyway, scientists fear the debris could contaminate collected samples. NASAPerseverance rover currently searching for ancient life on Mars.
A scientist calculates that there are 15,694 pounds of garbage on Mars. Much of it stems from discarded hardware like this thermal blanket that keeps NASA’s Perseverance.
Much of the trash is inevitable, as many parts have to be thrown away to protect the vehicle as it rises through the infernal atmosphere of the Red Planet – including NASA’s Perseverance, which lasted seven minutes of hell when it landed in February 2021.
Collecting samples to be brought back to Earth on Mars, the rover captured images of the garbage during its mission.
In June, NASA’s team on Earth spotted a distant light in an image returned by Perseverance and then directed the rover to examine it.
A few weeks later, Perseverance entered the Hogwallow Flats area and acquired a high-resolution, 360-degree Mastcam-Z panorama.
The Ingenuity helicopter captured a snapshot of the landing equipment used on arrival with Perseverance. The images are a parachute and the cone-shaped rear shell protecting the spacecraft.
More recently, in June, Perseverance stumbled upon a fragmented Dacron web that helped it land safely on Mars.
And because of the Martian wind, the tight web began to unravel, and three weeks later it appeared as a knotted ball of rope-like material.
The image showed that the bright light was a reflection of a thermal blanket.
This was used to protect the car-sized vehicle from the extreme temperatures it experienced during the descent.
The blanket is tucked into the corner of a few rocks and seems to reflect light.
The rover’s companion Ingenuity helicopter also captured a snapshot of the landing equipment used during the arrival with Perseverance in 2021.
A parachute and the cone-shaped rear shell protecting the spacecraft were seen in incredible detail alongside its fiery descent to the Martian surface.
More recently, in June, Perseverance stumbled upon a fragmented Dacron web that helped it land safely on Mars.
And because of the Martian wind, the tight web began to unravel, and three weeks later it appeared as a knotted ball of rope-like material.
NASA’s Opportunity is now dead on Mars, but in 2004 it sent a picture of the heat shield and a picture of the debris strewn across the ground for several miles.
A total of nine active on Mars, including Mars 3 spacecraft, Mars 6 spacecraft, Viking 1 lander, Viking 2 spacecraft, Sojourner rover, European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli spacecraft (pictured), Phoenix spacecraft, the Spirit There are no spacecraft. rover and Opportunity rover
Then there are dead robots on Mars, specifically NASA’s Opportunity, which was active from 2004 to mid-2018.
This rover weighs about 347 pounds, the same as a hippopotamus, and is now stuck in Martin’s soil.
However, it left a trail of garbage as it crossed the Red Planet.
He sent NASA a picture of the heat shield and debris covering the ground for several miles in 2004.
Mars 3 spacecraft, Mars 6 spacecraft, Viking 1 lander, Viking 2 spacecraft, Sojourner rover, European Space Agency’s Schiaparelli spacecraft, Phoenix spacecraft, Spirit rover and Opportunity rover.
According to Kılıç, most of the robots are still intact, and space agencies view them as historical monuments rather than discarded garbage.
“When you add up the mass of all the spacecraft sent to Mars, you get about 22,000 pounds (9979 kilograms),” Kılıç said. Speech.
‘Remove the currently operational ship’s weight on the surface – 6,306 pounds (2,860 kilograms) – and 15,694 pounds (7,119 kilograms) of human debris remains on Mars.’
