Curiosity descent-stage crash is catalogued in this registry as an impact-site, held in the frame of Mars, from Artificial impact sites (curated).
Registry id IMP_MSL_DS ·
source layer impacts ·
provenance PROCESSED — derived deterministically from source catalogues (unit, frame and epoch conversions, cross-source reconciliation) — no value invented
Exists from 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2456145.5) — no end date is recorded.
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| Kind | impact-site |
|---|---|
| Origin | artificial (made by humans) |
| Planetary protection | target Mars · contact class surface · COSPAR category IVa under the policy in force at launch (IVa under the 2026 policy) · documentation: undocumented — a DOCUMENTATION fact, never a compliance verdict |
Sky-crane flown off & crashed after delivery, Gale crater; HiRISE-imaged. jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia16023 [public record — NASA/LROC/HiRISE]
Reproduced as the source wrote it. Author-year citations link to their DOI where one is registered.
These are absences in the catalogues aggregated here, not measurements of zero, and not statements that the quantity is unknown to science:
| Database | Artificial impact sites (curated) |
|---|---|
| Authority | NASA NSSDCA · LROC (Wagner et al. 2017) · HiRISE · mission pages |
| Licence | Public record |
| How it entered | Curated data-as-code (src/ingest/catalogs/impacts.ts) |
| Coverage | The located human-made impact craters/scars on the Moon, Mars and Mercury, surface-fixed at their measured lat/lon, each linking its high-resolution image |
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