List of artificial objects on extraterrestrial surfaces
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This is a partial list of artificial objects left on extraterrestrial surfaces.
 | This article needs to be updated. (January 2017) |
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 |
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
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