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Mashable

Mashable

Mars is littered with junk. Historians want to save it.

Mashable
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A group of anthropologists is calling for NASA and other space agencies to create a catalog of known objects on Mars .

The idea of space junk as an archaeological record of humanity is not an entirely new concept.

The Department of Defense tracks about 27,000 artificial objects near Earth that are four inches or larger.