Waste360 is part of the Informa Markets Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Need to Know

15,694 Pounds of Human Trash Have Already Been Left on Mars

Article-15,694 Pounds of Human Trash Have Already Been Left on Mars

New Horizons, NASA, Pluto
With fifty years of exploration on Mars completed, humans have already begun leaving their mark.

Humans have not yet stepped foot on the surface of Mars, however, about 15,694 pounds of human garbage is already spread across the planet. In order for humans to explore and research the planet, we have sent 14 different missions to Mars. These missions, sent by several nations, have equated to thousands of pounds of discarded hardware, and inactive or crashed spacecraft. The 15,694 pounds figure only accounts for the human technology that is not currently in use. 

Read more here.

TAGS: Government
Hide comments
account-default-image

Comments

  • Allowed HTML tags: <em> <strong> <blockquote> <br> <p>

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Publish