You have likely heard of the universe's space junk problem. Now, it seems we are even polluting other planets.
On Monday, NASA's Perseverance rover took a rare photo of a shiny silver object wedged between two rocks on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater and beamed it back to Earth for all to see.
"My team has spotted something unexpected: It's a piece of a thermal blanket that they think may have come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jet pack that set me down on landing day back in 2021," Perseverance team members wrote on Twitter Wednesday.
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