List of artificial objects on extraterrestrial surfaces

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This is a partial list of artificial objects left on extraterrestrial surfaces.

## Contents

* 1 Artificial objects on Venus
* 2 Artificial objects on the Moon
* 3 Artificial objects on Mars
* 4 Artificial objects on other extraterrestrial bodies
* 5 Estimated total masses of objects
* 6 Gallery
* 7 See also
* 8 References

## Artificial objects on Venus

Main page: Astronomy:List of artificial objects on Venus

## Artificial objects on the Moon

Main page: Astronomy:List of artificial objects on the Moon

## Artificial objects on Mars

Main pages: Astronomy:List of artificial objects on Mars and Astronomy:List of Mars landers

## Artificial objects on other extraterrestrial bodies

Surface  | Object  | Mass  | Owner  | Landing  | Location  | Ref.

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67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko  | Philae | 100 kg (220 lb)  |  ESA/DLR | 2014-11-12  | "Abydos"  |
Rosetta | 1,230 kg (2,710 lb)  |  ESA  | 2016-09-30  | "Sais"  |
433 Eros | NEAR Shoemaker | 487 kg (1,074 lb)  |  NASA/APL | 2001-02-12  | South of Himeros crater | [1]
25143 Itokawa | Hayabusa target marker  |  JAXA | 2005-11-20  | Muses Sea  | [2]
Mercury | MESSENGER | 1,108 kg (2,443 lb)  |  NASA/APL  | 2015-04-30  | Suisei Planitia  |
162173 Ryugu | MASCOT | 9.6 kg (21 lb)  |  CNES/DLR  | 2018-10-03  | Alice's Wonderland  | [3][4][5]
MINERVA-II Rover-1A | 1.1 kg (2.4 lb)  |  JAXA  | 2018-09-21  | Tritonis
MINERVA-II Rover-1B | 1.1 kg (2.4 lb)
MINERVA-II Rover-2 | 1.0 kg (2.2 lb)  | 2019-10  | Unknown | [6][7]
Hayabusa2 Small Carry-on Impactor | 2.5 kg (5.5 lb)  | 2019-04-05  | "C01"  | [8][9]
Hayabusa2 Deployable Camera 3 | ≈2.0 kg (4.4 lb)  | 2019-04  | Unknown | [10]
Hayabusa2 Target Marker B | 0.3 kg (0.66 lb)  | 2018-10-25  | "L08"  | [11]
Hayabusa2 Target Marker A | 0.3 kg (0.66 lb)  | 2019-05-30  | "S01"  | [9]
Hayabusa2 Target Marker E | 0.3 kg (0.66 lb)  | 2019-09  | Unknown | [12]
Hayabusa2 Target Marker C | 0.3 kg (0.66 lb)  | 2019-09  | Unknown | [12]
9P/Tempel | Deep Impact impactor  | 372 kg (820 lb)  |  NASA/JPL | 2005-07-04  |  |
Titan | Huygens lander  | 319 kg (703 lb)  |  ESA  | 2005-01-14  | Northeast of Adiri | [13][14]
| Huygens heat shield  | Unknown
Huygens parachute  | Unknown
Dimorphos | Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor  | 570 kg (1,260 lb)  |  NASA/JHUAPL | 2022-09-26  |  |

## Estimated total masses of objects

Surface  | Total estimated mass of objects (kg)  | Total estimated local weight of objects (N)

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Churyumov–Gerasimenko  | 100  | ?
Eros | 487  | ?
Itokawa | 0.591  | ?
Jupiter | 2,564  | 59,400
Mars | 10,240  | 37,833
Mercury | 507.9  | 1,881
The Moon | 205,988  | 34,194
Ryugu | 18.5  | ?
Saturn  | 2,150  | 2,289.75
Tempel 1 | 370  | 2.5
Titan | 319  | 372
Venus | 22,642  | 201,256
Dimorphos | 570  | ?
Total | 243,800 | 611,618+

## 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

* Venera 4

## See also

* Sample return mission and Moon rock
* List of archaeological sites beyond national boundaries
* List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies
* Deliberate crash landings on extraterrestrial bodies
* List of extraterrestrial orbiters
* List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System

## References

1. ↑ Spaceflight Now staff (28 February 2001). "NEAR Shoemaker phones home for the last time". https://www.spaceflightnow.com/near/010228end/. "NEAR Shoemaker now rests silently just to the south of the saddle-shaped feature Himeros..."
2. ↑ Rayl, A.J.S. (21 November 2005). "Hayabusa Does Not Land on Asteroid in First Attempt, But Successfully Delivers Target Marker". http://planetary.org/news/2005/1121_Hayabusa_Does_Not_Land_on_Asteroid_in.html. ""...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...""
3. ↑ Wall, Mike (23 August 2018). "Landing Site on Asteroid Ryugu Chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 Mission". https://www.space.com/41602-hayabusa2-asteroid-ryugu-landing-site-selected-photos.html. "The Hayabusa2 spacecraft's Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) will land at a site in the asteroid Ryugu's southern hemisphere dubbed MA-9..."
4. ↑ Nowakowski, Tomasz (5 October 2018). "European MASCOT spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu". https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/esa/european-mascot-spacecraft-successfully-lands-on-asteroid-ryugu/. "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)..."
5. ↑ "Correction to the name of the MINERVA-II1 landing site". JAXA. 1 February 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190204e_Nomenclature/.
6. ↑ The Downlink: Station Crew Home, Hayabusa2 Deploys Rover. Jason Davis, The Planetary Society. 4 October 2019.
7. ↑ @haya2e_jaxa (2 October 2019). "[MINERVA-II2 MINERVA-II2 is confirmed to have separated today (10/3) at 01:38 JST. The separation time was 00:57 J…"]. https://twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa/status/1179440763752480769.
8. ↑ "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. ↑ 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/.
10. ↑ 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/.
11. ↑ "The touchdown site". JAXA. 19 February 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190220e_TDPoint/.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Target marker separation operation". JAXA. 16 September 2019. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190916e_TMORB/.
13. ↑ Cook, Jia-Rui C. (14 January 2010). "Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago". https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=2448. "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."
14. ↑ NSSDCA staff (2005). "Huygens (NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1997-061C)". https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1997-061C. ""Mass: 319 kg""

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