This is a partial list of artificial objects left on extraterrestrial surfaces.
Artificial objects on Venus
Artificial objects on the Moon
Artificial objects on Mars
Artificial objects on other extraterrestrial bodies
Estimated total masses of objects
Gallery
File:Mars3_lander_vsm.jpg, Mars 3
Mars 3 was a robotic space probe of the Soviet Mars program, launched May 28, 1971, nine days after its twin spacecraft Mars 2. The probes were identical robotic spacecraft launched by Proton-K rockets with a Blok D upper stage, each consisting ...
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
Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to Moon landing, land on the Moon. It was the first List of Apollo missions#Alphabetical mission types, J mission, with a ...
Lunar Roving Vehicle
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) is a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program ( 15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972. It is popularly called the Moon buggy, a play on the t ...
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
Venera 4 (russian: Венера-4, lit=Venus-4), also designated 4V-1 No.310, was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. The probe comprised a lander, designed to enter the Venusian atmosphere and parachute to the s ...
See also
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Sample return mission
A sample-return mission is a spacecraft mission to collect and return samples from an extraterrestrial location to Earth for analysis. Sample-return missions may bring back merely atoms and molecules or a deposit of complex compounds such as lo ...
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Moon rock
Moon rock or lunar rock is rock originating from Earth's Moon. This includes lunar material collected during the course of human exploration of the Moon, and rock that has been ejected naturally from the Moon's surface and landed on Earth as ...
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List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System
The artificial objects leaving the Solar System are all space probes and the upper stages of their launch vehicles, all launched by NASA. Three of the probes, ''Voyager 1'', ''Voyager 2'', and ''New Horizons'' are still functioning and are regu ...
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List of landings on extraterrestrial bodies
This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts. The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which ...
References
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