List of extraterrestrial memorials
List of extraterrestrial memorials is a list of different types of memorials that are not on Earth.
Mars
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).
- Bradbury Landing, Curiosity rover landing site (August 6, 2012).[7] (Note: Due to the nature of the landing system, there is no actual space hardware at the touchdown location of Bradbury Landing, see Curiosity (rover))
- InSight Landing, the InSight lander (2018).
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)
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Earth
- Plaque on LAGEOS-1
- Immortality Drive, in the International Space Station
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[8]
- 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[9]
- Flag of India on ISRO's Moon Impact Probe that was released by Chandrayaan-1 and impacted the Lunar surface on 14 November 2008.[10][11]
- 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
Proposed
- MoonArk, a lunar museum on the Peregrine lander. Made by Carnegie Mellon University
- Memory of Mankind on the Moon, Team Puli from Hungary, will 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
- Lunar Libraries by the Arch Mission Foundation
Titan
Other
- Manfred Memorial Moon Mission (lunar flyby and Earth orbit)
- Two Voyager Golden Records, on board the Voyager spacecraft
- Arch Mission 1.2 on the Tesla Roadster in solar orbit and in the Beresheet Moon lander.
- Rosetta disk prototype, on the Rosetta space probe
References
- ^ Soviet Craft - Mars (1960-1974) Archived 2013-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ NSSDC - Viking 1 lander
- ^ NSSDC - Viking 2 lander
- ^ NSSDC - Mars Pathfinder
- ^ NASA - Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars
- ^ NASA - Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Memorialized on Mars
- ^ "Curiosity Landing Site Named for Ray Bradbury". NASA. August 22, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
- ^ "Sculpture, Fallen Astronaut". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
- ^ Soviet Craft - Luna (1958-1976) Archived 2013-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Laxman, Srinivas (2008-11-15). "Chandrayaan-I Impact Probe lands on moon". Times Of India. Retrieved 2008-11-14.
- ^ "China's lunar probe Chang'e-1 impacts moon". Xinhua News Agency. Mar 5, 2006. Archived from the original on 2009-03-01.
{{cite news}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 2015-02-10 suggested (help) - ^ "Huygens landing site to be named after Hubert Curien". European Space Agency. 5 March 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29.
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