Humans are already dumping garbage on Mars

[Mike Wehner]

• NASA's Mars 2020 mission arrived at the Red Planet two weeks ago, and we're just now getting our first look at the landing site from above.
• The ExoMars orbiter, which is a joint project between the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos, flew over the Jezero Crater where the rover landed and took some snapshots of it from orbit.
• The rover is visible in the images, as is the rover's trash that it dropped as it came cruising down to its landing location.

NASA successfully landed its Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars two weeks ago, marking the beginning of a very exciting chapter in the exploration and study of the Red Planet. The rover's landing was anything but certain, and the Perseverance team was elated to hear that the massive machine made it to the surface of the planet in one piece. The days since the landing have been mostly filled with engineers and mission team members putting the rover's various instruments through tests to ensure they are working as intended, but another vehicle near Mars decided to spy on the rover while it stretched its legs down below.

The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter, which is part of the ExoMars mission between the ESA and the Russian space agency, cruised over the landing area of the Perseverance rover just days after it came down. The orbiter snapped some images of the rover sitting in the Jezero Crater, which is exactly where NASA aimed it, and while the machine is little more than a few pixels in the image, we can definitely tell it's there, along with all the junk it brought with it.

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