Is it true that a Mars rover found a piece of plastic trash on Mars?

I haven’t heard this and seriously doubt it’s true. Where did you hear it?

I’d be interested in where you heard it also cause I haven’t. Source please.

Perhaps you mean this ?

@Zaku That is it. Thanks. Still it’s bad to spread our trash to the world and beyond. We need a trash law for space garbage.

@RedDeerGuy You want NASA to enforce a “pack it in, pack it out” rule? That’s crazy. I don’t think any equipment currently on Mars is coming back.

It’s true that the probe’s cameras have captured various images of its own detritus; .

It is a job for Wall-e.

@RedDeerGuy1 Since the day I first joined, you’ve been looking for the perfect career. I think you just found it!!! Contact NASA & volunteer to go behind any of their spacecrafts & recover any trash that was inadvertently (or advertently) left behind. It would be better than joining our Navy as you’d sign up & get to see the world!!!

I had heard of a similar thing happening on the moon, but I can’t locate the source today. So, you could visit Mars & the moon, collect our trash, & still be home in time for dinner!!!

At least it wasn’t a Wendy’s hamburger wrapper. That would worrisome, on a lof of levels.

It’s bogus.

Actually…. Earth received a bit of trash from Mars!
A bit of debris from a meteorite hit on Mars was found in Antarctica in 1984. Here is the NASA info on ALH84001.
It is worth glancing over to see how they analyze such discoveries.

Hey, Mars! Keep your trash to yourself! Don’t make us come over there!

In case you don’t want to read the full paper.:
Taking the Temperature of a Martian Meteorite – NASA
ALH84001 was blasted off of Mars 15 million years ago, most likely by an asteroid or comet impact. The rock tumbled through the solar system, finally reaching Earth approximately 11,000 years ago. The meteorite was discovered at Allan Hills, Antarctica, in 1984.

Really? Didn’t know Trump went to Mars.

Not content with just trashing our own planet

<<rolls eyes>> In one instance, it was a piece of the rover, in another more recently, it was a rock. Maybe if people didn’t routinely bash earth we would actually begin to be more compassionate.