Mars is littered with junk. Historians want to save it.
No astronaut has ever stepped foot on Marsbut that doesn’t mean humans haven’t left their mark — literally. Since 1971 when the Soviet Union’s Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red Planet, people have littered the Martian surface with man-made junk, quite a feat from an average of 140 million-miles away. Broken spacecraft debris, parachutes, […]
