NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has been on the planet since last year for the purpose of finding signs of life. However, NASA tweeted that the rover has encountered something unexpected: human debris.
My team has detected something unexpected: it’s a piece of a thermal blanket that they think may come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jetpack that dropped me on the day of landing in 2021. peak. twitter.com/O4rIaEABLu.
– NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) June 15, 2022
What is? According to Business Insider, the garbage is a piece of a thermal blanket that is used to protect the rover from extreme conditions when landing.
How did you get there? NASA scientists are not sure how the rubbish got to where it is.
- A post on the rover’s Facebook page reads: “It’s a surprise to find you here because my descent stage crashed about 2 miles away. This piece landed here after that, or the wind have you brought here?
A story of space junk: This is not the first time human waste has been observed on Mars.
- On April 19, a piece of the parachute and the back cover of the rover were seen on the red planet, according to Space.com.
Critic: People on social media responded quickly to the rubbish found on Mars, the Miami Herald reported.
- A commenter on NASA’s Facebook post wrote: “I guess it won’t be long before we start seeing soda bottles, discarded fast food containers and plastic trash on Mars. Maybe we should send a robot with a broom to start tidying up “.
- Another commenter wrote, “How to pollute without (being) physically in one place: that’s another level.”
- “Just because humans don’t like debris and debris doesn’t mean Martians hate it too. We don’t know anything about them. They could eat pollution for what we know,” joked another commenter.