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

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 Russia’s Mars 2 lander touched down at 5.22pm on May 19...