Mars Rover Finds Plastic On Mars

Full Video - 10 YEARS ON MARS:

In this clip, Curiosity finds a piece of plastic leftover from it's landing on Mars in 2012. It's thought to be a flake of shrink-tube form the descent stage. It's important that this does not contaminate Curiosity's internal sampling system.

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ./SSI
Music: Epidemic Sound

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[CoolJRT]

214, 000, 000 km away and we're still littering it

[PrimeGaming]

First step towards making it "Earth-like" 😍

[ThatFunnyPlace]

Plastic is everywhere. We even managed to litter on mars 🤣

[OneTequilaTwoTequila]

If we were going to litter, we should at least have taken the opportunity to make the first piece of trash a MARS bar wrapper.

[BoneBullet]

To boldly dump trash where no one has dumped trash before. Humanity I salute you!!

[mrchickflick]

Mars applies for an intergalactic restraining order against all humans

[josueflores]

Not even on mars yet and we’re already littering

[xevilace]

The most interesting thing we've ever found on another planet? Our own trash. 😮

[kevinrochford]

Man’s greatest Accomplishment, leaving trash everywhere

[GlassOfWater]

It’s wild to think that that piece of plastic has been through so many processes, from being a dying dinosaur millions of years ago, to being manufactured and shipped off to NASA. It’s crazy to think we have landed dinosaurs on mars.

[wazza]

Next they'll find a Coca Cola bottle cap !

[pippipster]

I think there needs to be an intergalactic fine for this.

[nikorousamurai]

One human's trash is another alien's treasure.

[Adriaan-hblg]

bruh I think we need to start using black holes as trash cans

[carl_anderson]

Today: a piece of plastic
Tomorrow: a cigarette and a condom
Soon: a turd
¡Mars: here we go!

[Jaylou]

A single tear runs downs the Martian’s face as it stands over the foreign object littering its land.

[LiberPater]

I'm just waiting for the inevitable starbucks cup somewhere in the background.

[thekat]

You can take the rocket scientist out of the Trailer Park but…..you can’t take the Trailer Park out of the rocket scientist……man’s ability to trash planets took a giant dump forward.

[dwefxbj]

So, , , we don't want to cotaminate the sampler, so we'll just contaminate the surface of Mars. WOW!!! GENIUS IDEA THERE!

[LoreChaplain]

"Shit, I think I left something out there and the Rover saw it."
"Don't worry, it's plastic. The humans will just think it's theirs."