Mars List of extraterrestrial memorials



several landing sites have been named, either spacecraft or landing site:



pennants of soviet union on mars 2 , mars 3 landers (1971).
thomas mutch memorial station, viking 1 lander (1976).
gerald soffen memorial station, viking 2 lander (1976).
carl sagan memorial station, mars pathfinder (sojourner) base (1997).
challenger memorial station, mer-b (opportunity) landing site area (2004).
columbia memorial station, mer-a (spirit) landing site area (2004).
green valley, phoenix lander (2008).
bradbury landing, curiosity rover landing site (august 6, 2012). (note: due nature of landing system, there no actual space hardware @ touchdown location of bradbury landing, see curiosity (rover))



interactive imagemap of global topography of mars, overlain locations of memorial sites on mars (yellow label = named memorial site; blue label = possible debris site; ? = precise location not known). hover mouse see names of on 25 prominent geographic features, , click link them. coloring of base map indicates relative elevations, based on data mars orbiter laser altimeter on nasa s mars global surveyor. reds , pinks higher elevation (+3 km +8 km); yellow 0 km; greens , blues lower elevation (down −8 km). whites (>+12 km) , browns (>+8 km) highest elevations. axes latitude , longitude; poles not shown.









































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