Interplanetary litterbugs.
    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Tetra@kbin.social
    161·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        You’re not wrong with your sentiment but i think it’s pretty safe to say that if we find life on Mars it’s gonna be trapped in ice somehow or deep below the surface. Besides having next to no atmosphere, it also has no magnetosphere which means it takes the full blast from solar radiation. Nothing living on Earth could survive outside on the surface of Mars.

      • Tetra@kbin.social
        31·
        2 years ago

        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
          61·
          1 year ago

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          • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 years ago

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

              • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
                2·
                2 years 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