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List of artificial objects on extraterrestrial surfaces

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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 article: List of artificial objects on Mars, List of Mars landers

Artificial objects on other extraterrestrial bodies

Surface	Object	Mass	Owner	Landing	Location	Ref.
[67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko](67p-churyumov-gerasimenko)	Philae	100 kg	EuropeGermany ESA/DLR		"Abydos"
Rosetta	1,230 kg	Europe ESA		"Sais"
[433 Eros](433-eros)	NEAR Shoemaker	487 kg	United States NASA/APL		South of Himeros crater	author=Spaceflight Now staff	title=NEAR Shoemaker phones home for the last time	url=https://www.spaceflightnow.com/near/010228end/	website=Spaceflight Now	access-date=7 December 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206235956/https://www.spaceflightnow.com/near/010228end/	archive-date=6 December 2018	date=28 February 2001	quote=NEAR Shoemaker now rests silently just to the south of the saddle-shaped feature Himeros...	url-status=live}}
[25143 Itokawa](25143-itokawa)	Hayabusa target marker		Japan JAXA		Muses Sea	last=Rayl	first=A.J.S.	title=Hayabusa Does Not Land on Asteroid in First Attempt, But Successfully Delivers Target Marker	url=http://planetary.org/news/2005/1121_Hayabusa_Does_Not_Land_on_Asteroid_in.html	website=The Planetary Society	access-date=6 December 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621231644/http://planetary.org/news/2005/1121_Hayabusa_Does_Not_Land_on_Asteroid_in.html	archive-date=21 June 2011	date=21 November 2005	quote="...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..."	url-status=dead}}
Mercury	MESSENGER	1,108 kg	United States NASA/APL		Suisei Planitia
[162173 Ryugu](162173-ryugu)	MASCOT	9.6 kg	FranceGermany CNES/DLR		Alice's Wonderland	last=Wall	first=Mike	title=Landing Site on Asteroid Ryugu Chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 Mission	url=https://www.space.com/41602-hayabusa2-asteroid-ryugu-landing-site-selected-photos.html	website=Space.com	access-date=8 December 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208223757/https://www.space.com/41602-hayabusa2-asteroid-ryugu-landing-site-selected-photos.html	archive-date=8 December 2018	date=23 August 2018	quote=The Hayabusa2 spacecraft's Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) will land at a site in the asteroid Ryugu's southern hemisphere dubbed MA-9...	url-status=live}}
MINERVA-II Rover-1A	1.1 kg	Japan JAXA		Tritonis
MINERVA-II Rover-1B	1.1 kg
MINERVA-II Rover-2	1.0 kg		Unknown
Hayabusa2 Small Carry-on Impactor	2.5 kg		"C01"
Hayabusa2 Deployable Camera 3	≈2.0 kg		Unknown
Hayabusa2 Target Marker B	0.3 kg		"L08"
Hayabusa2 Target Marker A	0.3 kg		"S01"
Hayabusa2 Target Marker E	0.3 kg		Unknown	title=Target marker separation operation	date=16 September 2019	publisher = JAXA	url=http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20190916e_TMORB/}}
Hayabusa2 Target Marker C	0.3 kg		Unknown
9P/Tempel	Deep Impact impactor	372 kg	United States NASA/JPL
Titan	Huygens lander	319 kg	Europe ESA		Northeast of Adiri
	Huygens heat shield	Unknown
Huygens parachute	Unknown
Dimorphos	Double Asteroid Redirection Test impactor	570 kg	United States NASA/JHUAPL

Estimated total masses of objects

Surface	Total estimated mass of objects (kg)	Total estimated local weight of objects (N)
[Churyumov–Gerasimenko](67p-churyumov-gerasimenko)	100	?
[Eros](433-eros)	487	?
[Itokawa](25143-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](162173-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

File:Mars3_lander_vsm.jpg|Mars 3 lander at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Russia File:MER Spirit Lander Pan Sol16-A18R1 br2.jpg|MER-A Spirit rover lander File:Apollo15LunarRover.jpg|Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle in its final resting place on the Moon File:Huygens probe model.jpg|Scale model of the Huygens probe which landed on Titan File:Venera-4_capsule_in_museum.JPG|Venera 4

References

''Spaceflight Now'' staff. (28 February 2001). "NEAR Shoemaker phones home for the last time".
Rayl, A.J.S.. (21 November 2005). "Hayabusa Does Not Land on Asteroid in First Attempt, But Successfully Delivers Target Marker".
Wall, Mike. (23 August 2018). "Landing Site on Asteroid Ryugu Chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 Mission".
Nowakowski, Tomasz. (5 October 2018). "European MASCOT spacecraft successfully lands on asteroid Ryugu".
(1 February 2019). "Correction to the name of the MINERVA-II1 landing site". [[JAXA]].
Lakdawalla, Emily. (24 August 2018). "Hayabusa2 Team Announces Ryugu Landing Sites, Initial Science Survey Results".
ABC/Wires. (24 September 2018). "Hayabusa 2: Japanese space agency makes history by landing two rovers on an asteroid".
[http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/the-downlink-station-crew-home-hb2-rover.html The Downlink: Station Crew Home, Hayabusa2 Deploys Rover.] Jason Davis, ''The Planetary Society''. 4 October 2019.
(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…".
(8 July 2019). "Approach to the 2nd touchdown–Part 3: To go or not to go–". [[JAXA]].
(5 May 2019). "The Pinpoint Touchdown – Target Marker 1A (PPTD-TM1A) operation". [[JAXA]].
Gough, Evan. (16 July 2019). "Hayabusa 2 is the First Spacecraft to Sample the Inside of an Asteroid". Universe Today.
(19 February 2019). "The touchdown site". [[JAXA]].
(16 September 2019). "Target marker separation operation". [[JAXA]].
Cook, Jia-Rui C.. (14 January 2010). "Land Ho! Huygens Plunged to Titan Surface 5 Years Ago".
NSSDCA staff. (2005). "Huygens (NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 1997-061C)".

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