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Map reveals all the space junk we've already littered on Mars (metro.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] Tetra@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I suppose so, but I believe they always make sure not a single trace of Earth life is left on the equipement they sent to Mars, for obvious reasons. So they already control for that.

Besides looking pretty messy, I'm not sure this does any harm.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nasa sure puts a lot of effort into it... can't say i feel confident about other countries that crash into it...
on top of that, nasa has recently found that they've been breeding bacteria that lives off of their disinfectant, and so no they don't already control for that.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mars is inhabited by robots, but the Moon is inhabited by tardigrades because China crashed a lander.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this one?

Sad news for the tardigrades that were on board Israel's Beresheet mission, which crash-landed on the Moon in 2019. Researchers have learnt that the microscopic animals, which can survive the vacuum of space and heavy-duty doses of radiation, wouldn't have lived through the crash.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wrong country and wrong outcome, I really nailed it. Given how hardy they are, I can't say I'm convinced they're all dead. Not that they'd actually be active without air and water