List of extraterrestrial memorials

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Fallen Astronaut plaque and statue on the Moon, placed there during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission
The Mars rover Spirit contains a memorial to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-107 2003 mission, which disintegrated upon reentry.

List of extraterrestrial memorials is a list of different types of memorials that are not on Earth.

Mars[]

Main article: List of artificial objects on Mars § Landing site namings and memorials

Several landing sites have been named, either the spacecraft itself or the landing site:

  • Pennants of Soviet Union on Mars 2 and Mars 3 landers (1971).[1]
  • Thomas Mutch Memorial Station, the Viking 1 lander (1976).[2]
  • Gerald Soffen Memorial Station, the Viking 2 lander (1976).[3]
  • Carl Sagan Memorial Station, Mars Pathfinder (Sojourner) base (1997).[4]
  • Challenger Memorial Station, MER-B (Opportunity) landing site area (2004).[5]
  • Columbia Memorial Station, MER-A (Spirit) landing site area (2004).[6]
  • Green Valley, the Phoenix lander (2008).
  • Phoenix DVD
  • Bradbury Landing, Curiosity rover landing site (August 6, 2012).[7] (Note: No actual hardware at location.)
  • Rafael Navarro Mountain (Curiosity rover; April 5, 2021)
  • The Mars Curiosity Lincoln penny
  • InSight Landing, the InSight lander (2018).
  • Octavia E. Butler Landing, Perseverance rover landing site (2021).
  • Perseverance rover Tribute to healthcare workers plate and Martian Meteorite
  • "Send Your Name to Mars" on the Perseverance rover and Human DNA and Mars family inscriptions
  • The Ingenuity helicopter carries a small piece of fabric from the wing of the first powered aircraft, the 1903 Wright Flyer built and flown by the Wright Brothers,[8][9] and its take-off and landing area has been named Wright Brothers Field.
  • Perseverance's parachute with coded message "Dare mighty things"
Carl Sagan Memorial Station (1997)
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Interactive image map of the global topography of Mars, overlain with locations of Mars Memorial sites. Hover your mouse over the image to see the names of over 60 prominent geographic features, and click to link to them. Coloring of the base map indicates relative elevations, based on data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. Whites and browns indicate the highest elevations (+12 to +8 km); followed by pinks and reds (+8 to +3 km); yellow is 0 km; greens and blues are lower elevations (down to −8 km). Axes are latitude and longitude; Polar regions are noted.
(See also: Mars map; Mars Rovers map; Mars Memorials list)
(   Named •   Debris •   Lost )
Beagle 2
← Beagle 2
Curiosity
Bradbury Landing →
Deep Space 2
InSight
InSight Landing →
Mars 2
Mars 3
Mars 6
Mars Polar Lander
Polar Lander ? ↓
Opportunity
↑ Challenger Memorial Station
Pereverance
↓Wright Brothers Field
Phoenix
Schiaparelli EDM lander
Schiaparelli EDM →
Pathfinder
↓Carl Sagan Memorial Station
Spirit
Columbia Memorial Station ↑
Viking 1
Thomas Mutch Memorial Station →
Viking 2

Earth[]

The Moon[]

  • Fallen Astronaut, is a lunar plaque and small memorial statue for lives lost in space exploration. It was placed on the Moon during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission[10]
  • Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 each left a plaque and flag at their landing sites.
  • Pennants of the Soviet Union on Luna 2 impactor[11]
  • Flag of India on ISRO's Moon Impact Probe that was released by Chandrayaan-1 and impacted the Lunar surface on 14 November 2008.[12][13]
  • Moon Museum was left on the leg of the lunar module on Apollo 12. It had artwork from Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, Forrest Myers, Claes Oldenburg and John Chamberlain
  • Luna 01 from Celestis
  • Arch Mission Foundation's Lunar Library, possibly surviving after the Beresheet Moon lander's crash landing.
  • The flag of China on Chang'e 5

Planned[]

  • MoonArk, a lunar museum on the Peregrine lander. Made by Carnegie Mellon University[14]
  • Memory of Mankind on the Moon, Team Puli from Hungary plans to send a time capsule for the "Memory of Mankind (MoM) on the Moon" project. The capsule will hold ceramic tablets containing archival imagery and texts readable with a 10x magnifier.
  • DHL Moonbox is a mementos box planned to go to the Moon on the Peregrine lander in 2021. It is made by DHL and Airbus Defence and Space
  • All the payloads on DHL MoonBox
  • Lunar Libraries by the Arch Mission Foundation
  • Lunar Dream Time Capsule, from Astroscale
  • Lunaprise A time capsule on the Nova-C lunar lander
  • Luna 03

Titan[]

  • Hubert Curien Memorial Station, Huygens landing site on Saturn's moon.[15]

Jupiter[]

  • Juno's three LEGO figurines
  • Galileo Galilei plaque on Juno

Other[]

  • Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (lunar flyby and Earth orbit, memorial to Manfred Fuchs)
  • Two Voyager Golden Records, on board the Voyager spacecraft
  • Arch Mission disk 1.2 on the Tesla Roadster in solar orbit.
  • Rosetta disk prototype, on the Rosetta space probe
  • New Horizons Memorabilia
  • The Pioneer plaques, individual plaques on Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11

Proposed[]

  • KEO

References[]

  1. ^ Soviet Craft - Mars (1960-1974) Archived 2013-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ NSSDC - Viking 1 lander
  3. ^ NSSDC - Viking 2 lander
  4. ^ NSSDC - Mars Pathfinder
  5. ^ NASA - Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars
  6. ^ NASA - Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Memorialized on Mars
  7. ^ "Curiosity Landing Site Named for Ray Bradbury". NASA. August 22, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
  8. ^ [https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/a-piece-of-wright-brothers-history-is-set-to-fly-again-on-mars/IY47YRTRVNBC7JT3H5CLYUD2JY/ Springfield News-Sun
  9. ^ Potter, Sean (23 March 2021). NASA.gov%5d "NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prepares for First Flight" Check |url= value (help). NASA.
  10. ^ "Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  11. ^ Soviet Craft - Luna (1958-1976) Archived 2013-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Laxman, Srinivas (2008-11-15). "Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon". Times Of India. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
  13. ^ "China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 impacts moon". Xinhua News Agency. Mar 5, 2006. Archived from the original on 2015-02-10.
  14. ^ - MoonArk
  15. ^ "Huygens landing site to be named after Hubert Curien". European Space Agency. 5 March 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2012-05-08.

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