Map reveals the 7,000,000kgs of space junk we've already left on Mars

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Map reveals the 7,000,000kgs of space junk we've already left on Mars

Humans have been sending machines to Mars for more than 50 years (Picture: Getty/Science Photo Libra) Earlier this week, Nasa tracked down the broken rotor blade of its pioneering Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which suffered a mission-ending mishap in January. The whole chopper itself is only 1.8 kilograms, so the weight of the blade is less than a bag of sugar, but still adds to the growing pile of junk left on the Red Planet by humans. Since Rus…