List of artificial objects on extraterrestrial surfaces

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

Artificial objects on Venus

Main article: List of artificial objects on Venus

Artificial objects on the Moon

Main article: List of artificial objects on the Moon

Artificial objects on Mars

Main articles: List of artificial objects on Mars and List of Mars landers

Artificial objects on other extraterrestrial bodies

Surface	Object		Mass	Owner	Landing	Location	Ref.
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko	Philae		100 kg (220 lb)	ESA/DLR	12 November 2014	"Abydos"
	Rosetta		1,230 kg (2,710 lb)	ESA	30 September 2016	"Sais"
433 Eros	NEAR Shoemaker		487 kg (1,074 lb)	NASA/APL	12 February 2001	South of Himeros crater	[1]
25143 Itokawa	Hayabusa target marker		0.6 kg (1.3 lb)[citation needed]	JAXA	20 November 2005	Muses Sea	[2]
Mercury	MESSENGER		1,108 kg (2,443 lb)	NASA/APL	30 April 2015	Suisei Planitia
162173 Ryugu	MASCOT		9.6 kg (21 lb)	CNES/DLR	3 October 2018	Alice's Wonderland	[3][4][5]
	MINERVA-II Rover-1A		1.1 kg (2.4 lb)	JAXA	21 September 2018	Tritonis	[6][7][5]
	MINERVA-II Rover-1B		1.1 kg (2.4 lb)
	MINERVA-II Rover-2		1.0 kg (2.2 lb)		October 2019	Unknown	[8][9]
	Hayabusa2 Small Carry-on Impactor		2.5 kg (5.5 lb)		5 April 2019	"C01"	[10][11]
	Hayabusa2 Deployable Camera 3		≈2.0 kg (4.4 lb)		April 2019	Unknown	[12]
	Hayabusa2 Target Marker B		0.3 kg (0.66 lb)		25 October 2018	"L08"	[13]
	Hayabusa2 Target Marker A		0.3 kg (0.66 lb)		30 May 2019	"S01"	[11]
	Hayabusa2 Target Marker E		0.3 kg (0.66 lb)		September 2019	Unknown	[14]
	Hayabusa2 Target Marker C		0.3 kg (0.66 lb)		September 2019	Unknown	[14]
9P/Tempel	Deep Impact impactor		372 kg (820 lb)	NASA/JPL	4 July 2005
Titan	Huygens lander		319 kg (703 lb)	ESA	14 January 2005	Northeast of Adiri	[15][16]
		Huygens heat shield	Unknown
		Huygens parachute	Unknown
Dimorphos	Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor		570 kg (1,260 lb)	NASA/JHUAPL	26 September 2022

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	216,092	35,729
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	254,024	613,273+

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

External links

• Comprehensive listing of space artifacts by Philippe Pinczon du Sel (spaceartefacts.com)

References

1. Spaceflight Now staff (28 February 2001). "NEAR Shoemaker phones home for the last time". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018. 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". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 21 June 2011. 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...
3. Wall, Mike (23 August 2018). "Landing Site on Asteroid Ryugu Chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 Mission". Space.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. 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...
4. Nowakowski, Tomasz (5 October 2018). "European MASCOT spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu". Spaceflight Insider. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. 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)...
5. "Correction to the name of the MINERVA-II1 landing site". JAXA. 1 February 2019.
6. Lakdawalla, Emily (24 August 2018). "Hayabusa2 Team Announces Ryugu Landing Sites, Initial Science Survey Results". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018. "N6" marks the likely drop zone for MINERVA-II, which will deploy four microrovers.
7. ABC/Wires (24 September 2018). "Hayabusa 2: Japanese space agency makes history by landing two rovers on an asteroid". ABC News Australia. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018. The rovers, each with a diameter of 18cm, height of 7cm and weight of about 1.1kg, were released from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft on Friday.
8. The Downlink: Station Crew Home, Hayabusa2 Deploys Rover. Jason Davis, The Planetary Society. 4 October 2019.
9. @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…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
10. "Approach to the 2nd touchdown–Part 3: To go or not to go–". JAXA. 8 July 2019.
11. "The Pinpoint Touchdown – Target Marker 1A (PPTD-TM1A) operation". JAXA. 5 May 2019.
12. Gough, Evan (16 July 2019). "Hayabusa 2 is the First Spacecraft to Sample the Inside of an Asteroid". Universe Today.
13. "The touchdown site". JAXA. 19 February 2019.
14. "Target marker separation operation". JAXA. 16 September 2019.
15. Cook, Jia-Rui C. (14 January 2010). "Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. 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.
16. NSSDCA staff (2005). "Huygens (NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1997-061C)". National Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA). Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018. Mass: 319 kg