Whether we’re talking about real life or fiction, space travel is hard. When Harry Vanderspeigle (real name unpronounceable) visited our pale blue dot, a stray bolt of lightning brought down his craft and stranded him on Earth. Even the intelligent extraterrestrials of Resident Alien (streaming now on Peacock) couldn’t manage visiting another world without leaving a little wreckage.

If there’s any alien spacecraft wreckage on our planet, we haven’t found it (or it’s being hidden), but we have found the wreckage of an alien spacecraft on Mars, and the aliens are us. During the 26th flight of Ingenuity, NASA’s tiny Martian quadcopter, scientists snapped photos of shattered landing equipment, crashed into the Martian regolith.

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Ingenuity was looking at some of the landing equipment responsible for delivering it and the Perseverance rover safely to the ground. It was all part of the complicated Seven Minutes of Terror which began the rover’s time on the Red Planet.

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