This mission is an incredible achievement. The images are as advertised (stunning) and I'm sure all the sciences - and even art - will benefit from the data.
What I find a little sad is that we seem incapable of doing this without leaving a particularly human signature wherever we go.
What I find a little sad is that we seem incapable of doing this without leaving a particularly human signature wherever we go.
We arrived on Mars with jets of pollution https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25672/black-and-white-smoke-... followed by the dumping of the two pieces of trash required to enable the landing.
For all the data we have gained, we have lost a pristine planet - which makes me wonder if we are doing this at the right time.