Just as Homo sapiens once exploded out of Africa to colonize the Earth our influence is spreading in the solar system. New ...

For example, artifacts left behind on Mars can become covered by sand dunes. According to the study authors, Mars has ...

Since the Soviet Union's Mars 2 probe crashed on Mars' surface in 1971, humans have left a range of artifacts on the planet's dusty surface. This growing list of artifacts serves as a museum of ...

Holcomb added that a step in the right direction is establishing a way to track and catalog human-made materials on Mars and other planets humans might explore. "These artifacts are very much like ...

How important is it to preserve human artifacts on Mars, specifically the myriads of rovers and landers that have helped us better understand the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in ...

While anthropologists have some grasp of how climate and geology contribute to the degradation of artifacts on Earth, the otherworldly environments of planets like Mars are sure to affect how ...

16, 2024 — Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration ... evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in its ...