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	218,829	36,181
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	259,073	613,725+

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)