Scientists are calling for the cataloging of human artifacts left on Mars — from spacecraft and landers to rovers, probes, and other debris — to document humanity’s earliest steps in ...

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

Since 1971 when the Soviet Union's Mars 2 spacecraft crash-landed onto the Red Planet, people have littered the Martian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anthropologists Call for Tracking and Preservation of Human Artifacts on Mars Dec ... evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point ...

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 ...