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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

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space junk dumped on Mars

Well sort of from all of the attempts to land and those that did Map reveals the 7,000,000kgs of space junk we’ve already dumped on Mars

Earlier this week, Nasa tracked down the broken rotor blade of its pioneering Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which suffered a mission-ending mishap in January. The whole chopper itself is only 1.8 kilograms, so the weight of the blade is less than a bag of sugar, but still adds to the growing pile of junk left on the Red Planet by humans

Lots of information contained on 12 slides.

Mars_B4_Moon

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Registered: 2006-03-23

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Re: space junk dumped on Mars

Almost half of all missions have been failures. The difference between NASA JPL / USA's lander stuff and Europe's is some of Europe's stuff never worked. Lot's of multi million bucks of 'Euro-Trash' dumped maybe some day they will have better luck and the Russians also have trouble sticking the landing correctly, its probably best the planned robotic Mars rover got delayed, part of the international ExoMars programme led by the European Space Agency and the now sanctioned Russian Roscosmos State Corporation after its invasion of Ukraine was put on indefinite delay, blocked or terminated.  France / ESA's original Aurora roadmap plan of returning of samples from Mars in the 2020 probably would have also failed.

Mars does not like the Russians, Zond 2, post Soviet Mars 96, all failures, USSR Marsnik, Mars 1M, Mars 2MV, Mars 2M all failures, Soviet probes Phobos 1 and 2 were sent to Mars in 1988 to study Mars and its two moons, with a focus on Phobos. Phobos 1 lost contact on the way to Mars. Phobos 2, while successfully photographing Mars and Phobos, failed before it was set to release two landers.

Last edited by Mars_B4_Moon (2024-03-31 13:41:16)