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Mars Rover Perseverance notices detritus from a thermal blanket on the planet’s surface

Without man landing on the surface of the red planet, humanity has found a way to pollute it. On Wednesday, NASA announced that its Rover Perseverance had spotted “something unexpected” – human garbage on Mars. A tweet shared by the rover’s crew shows a small, silver piece of foil sandwiched between two rocks in Jezero Crater that Perseverance has been researching for ancient signs of life and other biosignators for more than a year. “It’s surprising to find this out here: My descent stage was about 2 km away,” the team wrote in the voice of Perseverance. “Did this piece land here after that, or was it blown away here by the wind?” seven minutes of horror. ” Perseverance landed on the surface of the planet in February 2021, launching NASA’s ninth mission to Mars. It was unclear on Wednesday whether the little robot would be subject to any garbage fines.

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