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NASA’s ‘Ingenuity Helicopter’ flew 72 times across the surface of the red planet.
Once, a NASA chopper flying thousands of miles saw the ‘otherworldly’ sight of some spaceship debris in the middle of the red sand.
It would certainly be unearthly, since the photos were taken on another planet. But as a civilization, we may have to get used to the idea of witnessing life on a planet other than our own.
Since we have only been developing flying vehicles for 121 years, we can only currently transmit technology to other worlds. Just think of where we might be at the conclusion of this century.
As part of the Mars 2020 mission, NASA’s Perseverance Rover carried the Ingenuity Helicopter, which was scheduled to make five flights over the red planet.
As the first aircraft to successfully complete a powered, controlled flight on a another planet, the helicopter eventually completed 72 flights.
The aircraft was built to reach places the rover couldn’t safely reach and shoot a variety of images so we could view this other planet. It photographed a stunning scene in 2022.
The wreckage of a spaceship, lying in the sands of Mars and slightly warmed by the contact, is a collection of objects built on a different world that might now lie forever on the nearly silent surface of the red planet.
“There’s definitely a sci-fi element to it,” Perseverance’s parachute system engineer Ian Clark told The New York Times. It feels alien, doesn’t it?
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but it also holds an infinite amount of engineering knowledge,”
Unfortunately, these shattered remnants strewn across red sand are not the result of alien activity; they are man-made.
Despite the ‘otherworldly’ and science fiction-like appearance of this debris, there is no evidence that aliens are on Earth or have been getting as close as the surface of Mars.
A portion of the landing equipment that landed Ingenuity and the Perseverance Rover on the Martian surface was found by the NASA helicopter. We are responsible for leaving spaceship debris on other planets.
Our planet’s orbit is clogged with rubbish that we have sent up there that we no longer need, proving that humans are bad litterbugs in space.
We seem to be filling other universes with our exits as well.
We may be able to clean up all of this when we eventually arrive at Mars, marking a significant milestone in the history of human space flight, or we may choose to leave this garbage where it is.
According to the Natural History Museum, there are currently over 2,000 satellites orbiting the Earth, but there are also roughly 3,000 “dead” satellites that are still present but not in use.
Furthermore, innumerable other pieces of debris are drifting about the world, threatening spacecraft and our aspirations for future space exploration.
