List of man-made objects on Mercury

Calculated impact of Messenger on Mercury

The list of man-made objects on Mercury includes objects that were brought from Earth to the surface of Mercury . It does not contain any smaller items such as parachutes or heat shields (which were not present in the only Mercury probe listed so far).

The next Mercury mission is planned with BepiColombo as part of a cooperation between ESA and JAXA . The launch took place on October 20, 2018.

object	country	landing	Mass (kg)	position	comment	image
Messenger	USA ( NASA )	April 30, 2015	1,093	54 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  N , 149 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  W.	Deliberately induced hard surcharge after full fuel consumption.

See also

• List of artificial objects on other celestial bodies
• List of man-made objects on Mars
• List of man-made objects on the moon
• List of man-made objects on Venus

Web links

• MESSENGER in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)
• Details of MESSENGER's Impact Location. ( Memento from April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). JHU / APL (English)
• Bernd Leitenberger: Space probes for Venus and Mercury