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Feature Name
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Target |
Diameter |
Center Latitude
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Center
Longitude |
Feature Type
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Approval Date
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Origin |
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| Lunokhod Planitia | Pluto | 557.00 | 30.75 | 109.57 | Planitia, planitiae | Feb 03, 2021 | Two Soviet Union planetary rovers that were sent to the surface of the Moon (1970, 1973). Lunokhod 1 was the first remote-controlled, wheeled robot to land on and rove on an extraterrestrial body. |
| Ranger Planitia | Pluto | 370.59 | 20.89 | 127.91 | Planitia, planitiae | Feb 03, 2021 | A series of US space probes sent to the Moon during 1961-1965. In 1964, Ranger 7 obtained the first close-up images of an extraterrestrial surface. |
| Rosetta Planitia | Pluto | 480.00 | -22.31 | 157.22 | Planitia, planitiae | May 27, 2022 | Rosetta mission, the first mission to orbit and land a spacecraft on a comet. |
| Sputnik Planitia | Pluto | 1492.00 | 19.51 | 178.69 | Planitia, planitiae | Aug 08, 2017 | Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 (literally Satellite 1), the first human-built satellite of the Earth (1957). |
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