Humans have left more than 15,000 pounds of trash on in the last 50 years and not a single person has ever stepped foot on the red planet.Cagri Kilic, a postdoctoral research fellow in robotics at West University, analyzed the mass of all rovers and orbiters sent to Mars and subtracted the weight of what is currently in operation, resulting in 15,694 pounds of debris.The trash includes discarded hardware, inactive spacecraft and those that crashed on the surface - specifically the Soviet Union’s Mars orbiter 2 that made a crash landing in 1971.
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