They carried us there — then we left them behind. Rovers with dead batteries. Landers frozen mid-bow. Footprints that will outlive us all. Scroll to fly from Earth to the boneyards of two worlds.
* ~193,000 kg on the Moon (NASA History catalogue, 2012) + ~14,000 kg on Mars. Coordinates: LROC / HiRISE-verified where published.
Keep scrolling. The stars will stretch. Earth falls away behind you. First stop: a grey world with no wind — where everything we dropped in 1969 is exactly where we left it.
On the Moon nothing decays. There is no air, no water, no life to bury our trash. Every bootprint, every crashed stage, every golf ball sits in perfect vacuum — a museum with no roof.
MASS 10,334 kg · STATUS: ETERNAL LANDER
Armstrong and Aldrin blasted off its roof and left the bottom half behind as a launch pad. It still sits in the dust, ladder out, plaque reading “We came in peace.”
TOP SPEED 18 km/h · RANGE 92 km TOTAL · BATTERIES DEAD
Three electric dune buggies, parked forever. Apollo 17’s fender was fixed with duct tape and a lunar map. The TV camera on the last one filmed the crew’s departure — then stared at an empty plain.
LASERS STILL PINGED FROM EARTH · SEISMOMETERS SILENT SINCE 1977
We left mirrors that scientists still shoot lasers at — and 96 bags of waste, backpacks, boots, and cameras stripped for film. The Moon is both laboratory and landfill.
SVG planets with pulsing landing-site beacons, ported from web-1. Same coordinates, same stories — restyled to this HUD. Click any pin or list entry for the full field report.
This is a procedural echo of a Mars rover, rendered live in your browser. Drag it. Zoom it. Imagine its last winter.
On Mars, dust coats solar panels until rovers starve. Drag the slider to fast-forward years of accumulation on the panels above.
Opportunity died this way: a 2018 planet-wide dust storm blotted the sun for months. Last message, translated by engineers: “My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”
Mars has weather. Wind buries, uncovers, sandblasts. Each machine below outlived its warranty — then Mars took it back.
All 14 web-1 site files, filterable. Each card opens the full drawer report.
A fake-but-plausible DSN stream stitched from real mission events. Hover to freeze. Every line is grounded in a true date or telemetry quirk.
Footprints last ~1M years. Golf balls, plaques, crashed stages — vacuum-sealed. Only micrometeorites sand them down, grain by grain.
Dust devils wash rovers clean, then planet-wide storms starve them. Phoenix was crushed by ice. InSight became a dune. Mars curates by burying.
Flattened from all 14 site files. Search it. The weird stuff is real: javelins, golf balls, a family photo, a piece of the Wright Flyer on Mars.
Hold SPACE (or touch/hold the pad) to burn. Touch down under 4 m/s with fuel left. Gravity 1.62 m/s² — the Moon forgives nothing.
Hold SPACE / W / ↑ or hold the burn pad. Touch down under 4 m/s with fuel left. Under 1.5 m/s for three stars.
Voyager’s plasma hum, Apollo’s Quindar beeps, Martian wind recorded by Perseverance’s mic — synthesized live with WebAudio. No files. Just math pretending to be ghosts.
Every dead machine bought the next one life: Sojourner taught Spirit, Spirit taught Curiosity, Ingenuity taught us to fly. Leave a light on for them.
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