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Terrestrial Garbage On Mars

Posted by timothy on from the because-we-have-enough-of-it-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The garbage left behind by the twin Mars rovers was highlighted this week by the close-up view in panorama of the Spirit rovers' heatshield. Not including the various Viking, Pathfinder and some crippled probes, the human contribution of rover hardware to the martian surface now includes a few odd nicknacks, parachutes, heatshields, back shell,landing petals and many wheel tracks. It may be September before the rovers themselves become part of the red planet's debris field."

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  1. Cowards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    While anonymous the coward submitting this story still doesn't have the guts to say why he listed all these facts. I'll have to guess he thinks it's a wrong to make that mess. Does anyone really think that's such a big mess?

    It's less mess than a single paper clip in my back yard. If that's the only mess we make on Mars, I'm going to be very sad and disappointed.

    Yes, I am a bleeding heart liberal quasi-socialist envormentalist. It's not like we're covering Mars with buckyballs or anything. :-)

  2. Martian Sanitation by Dh2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a travesty that the pure & honorable planet Mars now has the solar system's worst semi-sentient race befouling it's gloriously pristine dead surface with plastics and shiny metal.

    The only thing worse would be the filthy creatures actually setting foot on Martian soil!

    Vote for Martian succession this winter to keep the Martian surface clean!