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 later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
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Planets

Mercury">Mercury (planet)">Mercury

MissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactCoordinatesNotes
MESSENGER

[Venus]

MissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactCoordinatesNotes
Venera 3

[Mars]

MissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactCoordinatesNotes
Mars 2 landerCoord|45|S|30|W|globe:Mars_type:landmark

[Jupiter]

Jupiter is a gas giant with a very large atmospheric pressure and internal temperature and thus there is no known hard surface on which to "land". All missions listed here are impacts on Jupiter.
MissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactNotes
Galileo atmospheric probe USAnowrap|7 December 1995nowrap|

[Saturn]

Saturn is a gas giant with a very large atmospheric pressure and internal temperature and thus there is no known hard surface on which to "land". All missions listed here are impacts on Saturn.
MissionCountry/ AgencyDate of landing/impactNotes
Cassini orbiter USAnowrap|15 September 2017

Planetary moons

Earth's [Moon]

MissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactCoordinatesNotes
Luna 2Lunar coords and quad cat|29.1|N|0|W

[Moons of Saturn]

;Titan
MissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactCoordinatesNotes
Huygens probe ESA14 January 2005Titan floating lander. Successful soft landing. Transmitted data for 90 minutes following landing.

Other bodies

[Asteroids]

BodyMissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactNotes
Erosnowrap|

[Comets]

BodyMissionCountry/AgencyDate of landing/impactNotes
Comet 9P/Tempel 1Deep Impact