Trash left on the moon.
With the surprise landing of a Chinese Rover Yutu 2 or the Jade rabbit 2 and the Chang'e lander on the far side of a moon on the 3rd of January 2019, I thought it'd be interesting to see what sort of things we've actually put up on the moon and to speculate on what might happen to them in the future. Neil Armstrong’s first photo taken after setting foot on the moon captures a bag of human waste that was jettisoned from the spacecraft NASA Now it will come as no surprise that the Apollo missions have left behind the most amount of items but long before they were even thought of the Soviets pulled off something that not for the first time the U.S. thought they couldn't actually do. In 1959 the Soviet Luna 2 probe was the first man-made object to intentionally impact on to the lunar surface, the closest to the US had got to the moon by then was with a pioneer for but that was 60,000 kilometers away which was a bit of a shock because the U.S. believed t...