List of extraterrestrial memorials

Short description: Objects in space created in recognition of prominent figures

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Fallen Astronaut plaque and statue on the Moon, placed there during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission The Mars rover Spirit contains a memorial to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-107 2003 mission, which disintegrated upon reentry.

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

## Contents

* 1 Mars
* 2 Earth orbit
* 3 The Moon
* 3.1 Planned
* 4 Titan
* 5 Jupiter
* 6 Other
* 6.1 Proposed
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## 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, 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]

Carl Sagan Memorial Station (1997)

## 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
* Lunaprise A time capsule – on the Nova-C lunar lander[19]

### Planned

* 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[20]

## 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

1. ↑ "Viking 1 Lander". https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1975-075C.
2. ↑ "Viking 2 Lander". https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1975-083C.
3. ↑ "Mars Pathfinder". https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1996-068A.
4. ↑ "Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars". mars.nasa.gov (Press release). January 28, 2004.
5. ↑ "Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Memorialized On Mars". 2004-01-06. https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/jan/HQ_04009_spirit_columbia.html.
6. ↑ "Curiosity Landing Site Named for Ray Bradbury". NASA. August 22, 2012. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=150917411.
7. ↑ mars.nasa.gov. "NASA's InSight Mars Lander" (in en). https://mars.nasa.gov/insight.
8. ↑ mars.nasa.gov. "Welcome to 'Octavia E. Butler Landing'" (in en). https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25701/welcome-to-octavia-e-butler-landing.
9. ↑ "After Three Years on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends". https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends.
10. ↑ "Soviet Craft - Mars (1960-1974)". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130708214014/http://burro.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/20th_soviet_mars.html.
11. ↑ "Rover DNA Inscription". 5 February 2021. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/.
12. ↑ Gnau, Thomas. "How a piece of Wright brothers history is set to fly again — on Mars". https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/a-piece-of-wright-brothers-history-is-set-to-fly-again-on-mars/IY47YRTRVNBC7JT3H5CLYUD2JY/.
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.
14. ↑ "Astronauts get their own LEGO minifigures on space station". 8 January 2015. https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-010815a-lego-minifigures-space-station.html.
15. ↑ "Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut". http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19860035000.
16. ↑ "Soviet Craft - Luna (1958-1976)". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130708201758/http://burro.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/20th_soviet_luna.html.
17. ↑ Laxman, Srinivas (2008-11-15). "Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon". Times Of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chandrayaan-I_Impact_Probe_lands_on_moon/articleshow/3714245.cms.
18. ↑ "China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 impacts moon". Xinhua News Agency. Mar 5, 2006. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/01/content_10923205.htm.
19. ↑ Tomasula, Steve (1999). "Time Capsule: Self-Capsule". Circa (89): 23. doi:10.2307/25563464. ISSN 0263-9475. https://doi.org/10.2307/25563464.
20. ↑ "Huygens landing site to be named after Hubert Curien". European Space Agency. 5 March 2007. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9GNN0LYE_index_0.html.

## External links

* Dickinson, David (2014-02-06). "A History of Curious Artifacts Sent Into Space". https://www.universetoday.com/109026/a-history-of-curious-artifacts-sent-into-space/.

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Mars

Outline of Mars

Geography|

| Atmosphere|

* Circulation
* Climate
* Dust devil tracks
* Methane

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Regions|

* Arabia Terra
* Cerberus (Mars)
* Cydonia
* Eridania Lake
* Iani Chaos
* Olympia Undae
* Planum Australe
* Planum Boreum
* Quadrangles
* Sinus Meridiani
* Tempe Terra
* Terra Cimmeria
* Terra Sabaea
* Tharsis
* Undae
* Ultimi Scopuli
* Vastitas Borealis

Physical
features|

* "Canals" (list)
* Canyons
* Catenae
* Chaos terrain
* Craters
* Fossae
* Gullies
* Mensae
* Labyrinthi
* Mountains
* by height
* Observed rocks
* Outflow channels
* Plains
* Valley network
* Valleys
* Gravity

Geology|

* Brain terrain
* Carbonates
* Chaos terrain
* Color
* Composition
* Concentric crater fill
* Dark slope streak
* Dichotomy
* Fretted terrain
* Geysers
* Glaciers
* Groundwater
* Gullies
* Lakes
* Lava tubes
* Lobate debris apron
* Marsquake
* Meteorites
* on Earth
* on Mars
* Mud cracks
* North Polar Basin
* Ocean hypothesis
* Ore resources
* Polar caps
* Recurring slope lineae (RSL)
* Ring mold craters
* Rootless cones
* Seasonal flows
* Soil
* Spherules
* Surface
* "Swiss cheese" feature
* Terrain softening
* Tharsis bulge
* Volcanology
* Water
* Yardangs

History|

* Amazonian
* Hesperian
* Noachian
* Observation history
* Classical albedo features

Astronomy|

| Moons|

* Phobos
* Stickney crater
* Monolith
* Deimos
* Swift crater
* Voltaire crater

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Transits|

* Solar eclipses on Mars
* Satellite transits
* Phobos
* Deimos
* Planetary transits
* Earth
* Mercury

Asteroids|

* Mars-crossers
* 2007 WD5
* Trojans
* 5261 Eureka
* 1998 VF31
* 1999 UJ7
* 2007 NS2

Comets|

* C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) (Mars close approach, 19 Oct 2014)

Exploration|

| Concepts|

* Flyby
* Orbiter
* Landing
* Rover
* Sample return
* Human mission
* Permanent settlement
* Colonization
* Terraforming

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Missions|

* List of missions to Mars

Advocacy|

* The Mars Project
* The Case for Mars
* Inspiration Mars Foundation
* Mars Institute
* Mars Society
* Mars race

Related|

* Artificial objects on Mars
* Memorials on Mars
* Fiction
* List of films set on Mars
* Martian
* Martian scientist
* Mythology
* Phobos and Deimos in fiction
* Flag of Mars
* Life on Mars
* Sub-Earth
* Timekeeping on Mars
* Darian calendar

* Book
* Category

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The Moon

Physical
properties|

* Internal structure
* Topography
* Atmosphere
* Gravity field
* Hill sphere
* Magnetic field
* Sodium tail
* Moonlight
* Earthshine

Orbit|

* Lunar distance
* Orbital elements
* Distance
* Perigee and apogee
* Libration
* Nodes
* Nodal period
* Precession
* Syzygy
* New moon
* Full moon
* Eclipses
* Lunar eclipse
* Total penumbral lunar eclipse
* Tetrad
* Solar eclipse
* Solar eclipses on the Moon
* Eclipse cycle
* Supermoon
* Tide
* Tidal force
* Tidal locking
* Tidal acceleration
* Tidal range
* Lunar station

Surface and
features|

* Selenography
* Terminator
* Hemispheres
* Near side
* Far side
* Poles
* North pole
* South pole
* Face
* Maria
* List
* Mountains
* Peak of eternal light
* Valleys
* Volcanic features
* Domes
* Calderas
* Lava tubes
* Craters
* List
* Ray systems
* Crater of eternal darkness
* South Pole–Aitken basin
* Soil
* Swirls
* Rilles
* Wrinkle ridges
* Rocks
* Lunar basalt 70017
* Water
* Space weathering
* Micrometeorite
* Sputtering
* Quakes
* Transient lunar phenomenon

Science|

* Observation
* Libration
* Lunar theory
* Origin
* Giant-impact hypothesis
* Theia
* Lunar magma ocean
* Geology
* Timescale
* Late Heavy Bombardment
* Lunar meteorites
* KREEP
* Experiments
* Lunar laser ranging
* ALSEP
* Lunar sample displays
* Apollo 11
* Apollo 17
* Lunar seismology

Exploration|

* Missions
* Apollo program
* Probes
* Landing
* Colonization
* Tourism
* Lunar resources

Time-telling and
navigation|

* Lunar calendar
* Lunisolar calendar
* Month
* Lunar month
* Nodal period
* Fortnight
* Sennight
* Lunar station
* Lunar distance

Phases and
names|

* New
* Full
* Names
* Crescent
* Super and micro
* Blood
* Blue
* Black
* Dark
* Wet
* Tetrad

Related|

* Lunar effect
* Moon illusion
* Pareidolia
* Man in the Moon
* Moon rabbit
* Craters named after people
* Artificial objects on the Moon
* Memorials on the Moon
* Moon in fiction
* Moon landing conspiracy theories
* Moon Treaty
* Moon in mythology
* Hjúki and Bil
* "Moon is made of green cheese"
* Natural satellite
* Double planet
* Lilith (hypothetical second moon)

* Category

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Titan

General|

* Atmosphere of Titan
* Climate of Titan
* Life on Titan

Lists|

* Lakes of Titan
* List of geological features on Titan

Lakes
and seas|

| Seas|

* Kraken Mare
* Ligeia Mare
* Punga Mare

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Lakes|

* Abaya Lacus
* Bolsena Lacus
* Feia Lacus
* Hammar Lacus
* Jingpo Lacus
* Kivu Lacus
* Koitere Lacus
* Ladoga Lacus
* Mackay Lacus
* Müggel Lacus
* Neagh Lacus
* Ontario Lacus
* Sotonera Lacus
* Albano Lacus

Rivers|

* Vid Flumina

Dry lakes|

* Eyre Lacuna
* Ngami Lacuna
* Woytchugga Lacuna

Features|

* Adiri
* Arrakis Planitia
* Dilmun
* Doom Mons
* Erebor Mons
* Ganesa Macula
* Guabonito
* Irensaga Montes
* Mayda Insula
* Menrva
* Mezzoramia
* Mindolluin Montes
* Misty Montes
* Mithrim Montes
* Perkunas Virgae
* Selk
* Shangri-La
* Shikoku Facula
* Sotra Patera
* Taniquetil Montes
* Tsegihi
* Tui Regio
* Xanadu

Exploration|

| Past|

* Pioneer program
* Pioneer 11
* Voyager program
* Voyager 1
* Voyager 2
* Cassini–Huygens
* Huygens

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Proposed|

* AVIATR
* Explorer of Enceladus and Titan
* Journey to Enceladus and Titan
* TALISE
* Titan Mare Explorer
* Titan Saturn System Mission
* Oceanus

Planned|

* Dragonfly (2026)

See also|

* Colonization of Titan

Other topics|

* Memorials on Titan
* Titan in fiction

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