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 interpl ...

“But these are not just trash piles—they’re artifacts of our first footsteps on Mars.” In short, our interplanetary trash will be treasure for space archaeologists of the near future.

Anthropologists are urging space organizations to develop a record of all human-made artifacts that end up on Mars' surface. This catalog, they argue, would help document mankind's efforts to hop ...

The next logical progression to space exploration would be sending people to Mars, but there are challenges to this, such as ...

Some of the more notable debris on Mars includes pieces of the Viking landers, heat shields, pieces of insulation and, more recently, parachutes and backshells from rover missions Curiosity and ...

is calling for NASA and other space agencies to catalog and preserve human-made artifacts on Mars as key archaeological resources. Their research commentary titled The Emerging Archaeological ...

Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars ... [+] rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm.