List of artificial objects on extraterrestrial surfaces
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This is a partial list of artificial objects left on extraterrestrial surfaces.
Artificial objects on Venus
Artificial objects on the Moon
Artificial objects on Mars
Artificial objects on other extraterrestrial bodies
| Surface | Object | Mass | Owner | Landing | Location | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko | Philae | 100 kg (220 lb) |   ESA/DLR
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2014-11-12 | "Abydos" | ||
| Rosetta | 1,230 kg (2,710 lb) | ESA
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2016-09-30 | "Sais" | |||
| 433 Eros | NEAR Shoemaker | 487 kg (1,074 lb) |  NASA/APL
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2001-02-12 | South of Himeros crater | [1] | |
| 25143 Itokawa | Hayabusa target marker |  JAXA
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2005-11-20 | Muses Sea | [2] | ||
| Mercury | MESSENGER | 1,108 kg (2,443 lb) | NASA/APL
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2015-04-30 | Suisei Planitia | ||
| 162173 Ryugu | MASCOT | 9.6 kg (21 lb) |  CNES/DLR
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2018-10-03 | Alice's Wonderland | [3][4][5] | |
| MINERVA-II Rover-1A | 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) | JAXA
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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) |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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
- ↑ 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..."
- ↑ 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...""
- ↑ 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..."
- ↑ 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)..."
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ @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.
- ↑ "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". 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."
- ↑ 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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