796 items left on the moon

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Nasa have released information that pinpoints the 796 items humans have left on the moon.

The official NASA Catalogue of Manmade Material on the Moon lists the objects. It states that 765 are from American missions.

Some of the items are as small as a pair of nail clippers, others consist of entire rovers and probes that long ago crashed into the surface.

Each dot on these maps represents one major item, and they’re not to scale. The image is deisgned to give people a sense of just how much we’ve left behind.

Each of the missions also took samples and performed scientific experiments on the surface. That means there is a lot of science tools that were left behind.

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Shem Banbury - Kiwi Kids News Editor

Shem Banbury is the Editor of Kiwi Kids News and is the Deputy Principal at Mount Maunganui Intermediate. In his spare time, he likes to train and compete in triathlons, play cricket and spend time with his family.

7 Responses

Anonymous says:

July 23, 2019 at 11:02 am

So is this good or bad?
Anonymous says:

July 23, 2019 at 4:07 pm

that I amazing but why haven’t discovered it earlier
Anonymous says:

July 23, 2019 at 4:47 pm

This really shows our impact on not just our planet but others too. We really need to stop pollution. Land pollution, ocean pollution, air pollution and now space pollution!!
Anonymous says:

July 30, 2019 at 2:00 pm

what are the items?!
Anonymous says:

August 1, 2019 at 10:17 am

I wonder what the items are.
Guest says:

September 20, 2019 at 1:45 pm

If we send our trash to the sun will it destroy the plastic but send the fumes to other planets, that is not good I think we are stuck on this issue
noob says:

June 22, 2020 at 4:28 pm

nail clippers is a bit random to be on the moon