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Artificial objects by planet or moon
List of artificial objects on Mars
List of artificial objects on the Moon
List of artificial objects on Venus
Artificial objects on other Solar System bodies
Estimated total masses of objects
| Surface
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Total estimated mass of objects (kg)
|
| Churyumov–Gerasimenko
|
100
|
| Eros
|
487
|
| Itokawa
|
0.591
|
| Jupiter
|
2,564
|
| Mars
|
10,240
|
| Mercury
|
507.9
|
| The Moon
|
189,344
|
| Ryugu
|
18.5
|
| Tempel 1
|
370
|
| Titan
|
319
|
| Venus
|
22,642
|
| Total
|
226,586
|
Gallery
Mars 3 lander at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Russia
MER-A Spirit rover lander
Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle in its final resting place on the Moon
Scale model of the Huygens probe which landed on Titan
See also
- Sample return mission and Moon rock
- List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System
- List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies
References
- ↑ Spaceflight Now staff (28 February 2001). "NEAR Shoemaker phones home for the last time". Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181206235956/https://www.spaceflightnow.com/near/010228end/. Retrieved 7 December 2018. "NEAR Shoemaker now rests silently just to the south of the saddle-shaped feature Himeros..."
- ↑ Rayl, A.J.S. (21 November 2005). "Hayabusa Does Not Land on Asteroid in First Attempt, But Successfully Delivers Target Marker". Archived from the original on 21 June 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110621231644/http://planetary.org/news/2005/1121_Hayabusa_Does_Not_Land_on_Asteroid_in.html. Retrieved 6 December 2018. ""...Sunday, November 20 (JST) JAXA received the signal that Hayabusa had carried out its task successfully [...] the target marker landed about six and a half minutes after it left Hayabusa, settling down just as planned in the nice flat region that the team dubbed Muses Sea...""
- ↑ Wall, Mike (23 August 2018). "Landing Site on Asteroid Ryugu Chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 Mission". Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181208223757/https://www.space.com/41602-hayabusa2-asteroid-ryugu-landing-site-selected-photos.html. Retrieved 8 December 2018. "The Hayabusa2 spacecraft's Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) will land at a site in the asteroid Ryugu's southern hemisphere dubbed MA-9..."
- ↑ Nowakowski, Tomasz (5 October 2018). "European MASCOT spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu". Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181208223431/https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/esa/european-mascot-spacecraft-successfully-lands-on-asteroid-ryugu/. Retrieved 8 December 2018. "A small European spacecraft, known as the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT), successfully landed on asteroid Ryugu on Wednesday, Oct. 3 [...] MASCOT weighs some 21 lbs. (9.6 kilograms)..."
- ↑ "Correction to the name of the MINERVA-II1 landing site". JAXA. 1 February 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190204e_Nomenclature/.
- ↑ The Downlink: Station Crew Home, Hayabusa2 Deploys Rover. Jason Davis, The Planetary Society. 4 October 2019.
- ↑ Hatabusa2 at Twitter. JAXA. Accessed on 7 October 2019.
- ↑ "Approach to the 2nd touchdown–Part 3: To go or not to go–". JAXA. 8 July 2019. https://www.universetoday.com/142836/hayabusa-2-is-the-first-spacecraft-to-sample-the-inside-of-an-asteroid/.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The Pinpoint Touchdown – Target Marker 1A (PPTD-TM1A) operation". JAXA. 5 May 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190515e_PPTD-TM1/.
- ↑ Gough, Evan (16 July 2019). "Hayabusa 2 is the First Spacecraft to Sample the Inside of an Asteroid". Universe Today. https://www.universetoday.com/142836/hayabusa-2-is-the-first-spacecraft-to-sample-the-inside-of-an-asteroid/.
- ↑ "The touchdown site". JAXA. 19 February 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190220e_TDPoint/.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Target marker separation operation". JAXA. 16 September 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190916e_TMORB/.
- ↑ Cook, Jia-Rui C. (14 January 2010). "Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago". Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181206234930/https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=2448. Retrieved 6 December 2018. "The Huygens probe parachuted down to the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan exactly five years ago on Jan. 14, 2005 [...] as it plunged through Titan's hazy atmosphere and landed near a region now known as Adiri."
- ↑ NSSDCA staff (2005). "Huygens (NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1997-061C)". Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181206235537/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1997-061C. Retrieved 6 December 2018. ""Mass: 319 kg""
Spacecraft missions to minor planets and comets |
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- List of minor planets and comets visited by spacecraft
- List of artificial objects on extra-terrestrial surfaces
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Past and current | | Flybys |
- Cassini–Huygens
- Chang'e 2
- Clementine†
- CONTOUR†
- Deep Impact
- Deep Space 1
- Galileo
- Halley Armada
- Giotto
- Sakigake
- Suisei
- Vega 1
- Vega 2
- International Cometary Explorer
- NEAR Shoemaker
- New Horizons
- Pioneer 7
- PROCYON†
- Rosetta
- Stardust/NExT
- Ulysses
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|---|
| Orbiters |
- Dawn
- Hayabusa
- Hayabusa2
- NEAR Shoemaker
- OSIRIS-REx
- Rosetta
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|---|
| Landers |
- Hayabusa
- Hayabusa2
- HIBOU
- MASCOT
- MINERVA-II 2
- OWL
- NEAR Shoemaker
- Philae
|
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| Impactors | |
|---|
| Sample return |
- Hayabusa
- Hayabusa2
- OSIRIS-REx
- Stardust
|
|---|
| |
|---|
| Planned |
- NEA Scout (flyby, 2020-2021)
- Lucy (multiple flybys, 2021)
- DART (impactor and flyby, 2021)
- DESTINY+ (multiple flybys, 2022)
- Psyche (orbiter, 2022)
- Hera (orbiter and landers, 2024)
- Comet Interceptor (flyby, 2028)
|
|---|
| Proposed |
- ASTER (orbiter, 2021)
- Athena (flyby of Pallas, 2022)
- Centaurus (multiple flybys, 2026-2029)
- CORSAIR (sample return)
- HAMMER (nuclear impactor concept)
- MANTIS (multiple flybys)
- OKEANOS (multiple flybys and sample return, 2026)
- World Is Not Enough (spacecraft refueling concept)
- ZhengHe (multiple flybys and sample return, 2024)
|
|---|
Cancelled or not developed |
- AGORA
- AIM
- Asteroid Redirect Mission
- CAESAR
- Castalia
- Clementine 2
- Comet Hopper
- CONDOR
- CRAF
- Don Quijote
- Hayabusa Mk2
- MAOSEP
- Marco Polo
- New Horizons 2
- Vesta
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| Related |
- Asteroid belt
- Asteroid capture
- Asteroid mining
- Colonization of asteroids
- Ceres
- Pluto
- Small Solar System bodies
- Near-Earth object
- Trans-Neptunian object
- Trojan
- Vesta
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- Probes are listed in chronological order of launch. Italics indicate currently active missions. † indicates mission failures.
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Exploration of the Solar System |
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- Timeline of Solar System exploration
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| Exploration of |
- Mercury
- Venus
- Moon
- Mars
- Ceres
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto
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| Artificial objects | | On extra-terrestrial surfaces | |
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| Deep-space missions |
- Heliocentric orbit
- Leaving the Solar System
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| Lists |
- Solar System probes
- Missions to comets
- Landings on extraterrestrial bodies
- Objects at Lagrangian points
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