List of extraterrestrial memorials

This list of extraterrestrial memorials compiles the human-made memorials not located on Earth.

Mars

Landing sites:

Thomas Mutch Memorial Station – Viking 1 lander (1976)^[1]
Gerald Soffen Memorial Station – Viking 2 lander (1976)^[2]
Carl Sagan Memorial Station – Mars Pathfinder (Sojourner) base (1997)^[3]
Challenger Memorial Station – MER-B (Opportunity) landing site area (2004)^[4]
Columbia Memorial Station – MER-A (Spirit) landing site area (2004)^[5]
Green Valley – Phoenix lander (2008)
Phoenix DVD
Bradbury Landing – Curiosity rover landing site (August 6, 2012)^[6] (no actual hardware at location)
Rafael Navarro Mountain – Curiosity rover (April 5, 2021)
InSight Landing – InSight lander (2018)^[7]
Octavia E. Butler Landing – Perseverance rover landing site (2021)^[8]
Wright Brothers Field – first take-off and landing area of Ingenuity helicopter (2021)
Valinor Hills Station, last landing spot and final resting place of Ingenuity in Airfield Chi (χ) before retirement due to sustained rotor blade damage (2024)^[9]

Memorials and artifacts:

Pennants of Soviet Union on Mars 2 and Mars 3 landers (1971)^[10]
Lincoln penny – Curiosity rover
Tribute to healthcare workers plate and Martian Meteorite – Perseverance rover
"Send Your Name to Mars" – Perseverance rover
DNA Inscription – Perseverance rover^[11]
Mars rover family portrait – Perseverance rover
Parachute with coded message "Dare mighty things" – Perseverance rover
The Ingenuity helicopter carries a small piece of fabric from the wing of the first powered aircraft, the 1903 Wright Flyer built and flown by the Wright Brothers^[12]^[13]

Earth orbit

Plaque designed by Carl Sagan on LAGEOS-1
Immortality Drive, in the International Space Station
A GeoSat time capsule aboard EchoStar XVI, The Last Pictures (includes 100 black and white photographs)
Apollo 15 postal covers on the International Space Station
3 Lego Astronauts of Expedition 42: Terry Virts, Anton Shkaplerov, and Samantha Cristoforetti^[14]
The LEO library by the Arch Mission Foundation

The Moon

Fallen Astronaut – a lunar plaque and small memorial statue for lives lost in space exploration. It was placed on the Moon during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission.^[15]
Plaques and flags at the landing sites of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17
Pennants of the Soviet Union on Luna 2 impactor^[16]
Flag of India – aboard ISRO's Moon Impact Probe, which was released by Chandrayaan-1 and impacted the lunar surface on 14 November 2008.^[17]^[18]
Moon Museum – a ceramic wafer containing artwork from Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, Forrest Myers, Claes Oldenburg, and John Chamberlain. It was left on the leg of the lunar module on Apollo 12.
Luna 01 from Celestis
Arch Mission Foundation's Lunar Library – possibly survived the Beresheet Moon lander's crash landing
Flag of China on Chang'e 5 and 6.
Manfred Memorial Moon Mission – a lunar flyby and Earth orbit in memorial to Manfred Fuchs

Planned

Lunaprise A time capsule – on the Nova-C lunar lander
Luna 03
Lunar Codex's Nova Collection – art and poetry on Nanofiche on the Nova-C lunar lander in 2022
Lunar Codex's Polaris Collection – art, books, poetry, music and film on hybrid memory cards and Nanofiche on the Griffin lunar lander in 2023/24

Titan

Hubert Curien Memorial Station – Huygens landing site on Titan^[19]

Jupiter

Three LEGO figurines – Juno spacecraft
Galileo Galilei plaque – Juno

Other

Two Voyager Golden Records – Voyager spacecraft
Arch Mission disk 1.2 – Tesla Roadster in solar orbit
Rosetta disk prototype – Rosetta space probe
New Horizons Memorabilia
The Pioneer plaques – individual plaques on Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11

Proposed

KEO

References

^ "Viking 1 Lander". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.
^ "Viking 2 Lander". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.
^ "Mars Pathfinder". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.
^ "Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars". mars.nasa.gov (Press release). January 28, 2004.
^ "Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Memorialized On Mars". NASA. 2004-01-06.
^ "Curiosity Landing Site Named for Ray Bradbury". NASA. August 22, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
^ mars.nasa.gov. "NASA's InSight Mars Lander". NASA's InSight Mars Lander. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
^ mars.nasa.gov. "Welcome to 'Octavia E. Butler Landing'". NASA Mars Exploration. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
^ "After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ "Soviet Craft - Mars (1960-1974)". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013.
^ "Rover DNA Inscription". 5 February 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
^ Gnau, Thomas. "How a piece of Wright brothers history is set to fly again — on Mars". springfield-news-sun.
^ Potter, Sean (23 March 2021). "NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight" (Press release). NASA. 21-033. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022.
^ "Astronauts get their own LEGO minifigures on space station". collectSPACE.com. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
^ "Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
^ "Soviet Craft - Luna (1958-1976)". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013.
^ Laxman, Srinivas (2008-11-15). "Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon". Times Of India. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
^ "China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 impacts moon". Xinhua News Agency. Mar 5, 2006. Archived from the original on 2015-02-10.
^ "Huygens landing site to be named after Hubert Curien". European Space Agency. 5 March 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2012-05-08.

External links

Dickinson, David (2014-02-06). "A History of Curious Artifacts Sent Into Space". Universe Today.

[1] "Viking 1 Lander". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

[2] "Viking 2 Lander". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

[3] "Mars Pathfinder". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.

[4] "Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars". mars.nasa.gov (Press release). January 28, 2004.

[5] "Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Memorialized On Mars". NASA. 2004-01-06.

[6] "Curiosity Landing Site Named for Ray Bradbury". NASA. August 22, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.

[7] rs.nasa.gov. "NASA's InSight Mars Lander". NASA's InSight Mars Lander. Retrieved 2023-12-10.

[8] rs.nasa.gov. "Welcome to 'Octavia E. Butler Landing'". NASA Mars Exploration. Retrieved 2023-12-10.

[9] "After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.

[10] "Soviet Craft - Mars (1960-1974)". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013.

[11] "Rover DNA Inscription". 5 February 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2025.

[12] Gnau, Thomas. "How a piece of Wright brothers history is set to fly again — on Mars". springfield-news-sun.

[13] Potter, Sean (23 March 2021). "NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight" (Press release). NASA. 21-033. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022.

[collectSPACE.com_2015-14] "Astronauts get their own LEGO minifigures on space station". collectSPACE.com. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

[15] "Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original on 28 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.

[16] "Soviet Craft - Luna (1958-1976)". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013.

[TOI-17] Laxman, Srinivas (2008-11-15). "Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon". Times Of India. Retrieved 2008-11-14.

[18] "China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 impacts moon". Xinhua News Agency. Mar 5, 2006. Archived from the original on 2015-02-10.

[19] "Huygens landing site to be named after Hubert Curien". European Space Agency. 5 March 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2012-05-08.

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