Opportunity spent 15 years roving its ass off for this planet and now we have the nerve to call it “Space Junk.” No respect.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
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It proved it's ass off because it thought maybe, just maybe, if It analyzed one more good rock, we'd let it come home since it's original mission was only supposed to be 30 days.
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I'm glad the article mentions that in this case, it really doesn't matter; like, there seems to be nothing to 'pollute' on Mars (also 7 tonnes is not much at all). Bit of a strange headline to me.
you say junk, but someday soon that shits gonna save mark watney's life
Kind of difficult to pick up after ourselves over there.
It’s alien artifacts.
Jesus, internet, I don't want to know this shit anymore
Chill, it's a handful of stuff on an entire freaking planet. Sure Mars isn't as big as Earth, but it's still huge. You would be hard pressed to even find a single trace of man if you're on that planet.
It's a clickbait title, look at how bad the humans are. In the grand scheme of things this is a nothingburger. The benefits vastly out way the potential downside of dropping some stuff on another planet. Even if there is some trace of life there, dropping a little bit of stuff doesn't harm it in any way.
Also remember the scale here, it shows as dots on the map, so you think there is a lot. But in reality the size of the stuff compared to the size of the planet wouldn't even show up on a picture. It's not even big enough to be a single pixel. If the resolution was 10x greater, it still wouldn't be a single pixel. It's like those maps where they show the space debris around Earth to make it look like there is a lot. It's tricky to spot anything man made on Mars with high powered optics in a low orbit and knowing exactly where to look. If you can see the whole hemisphere, you ain't seeing shit.
It's fine.