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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 18. Chapters: Luna 2, Surveyor 6, Surveyor 4, Landings on other planets, Copernicus, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Stadius, Schroter, Diophantus, Kepler, Mons La Hire, Pytheas, T. Mayer, Timocharis, Gambart, Delisle, Marco Polo, Hortensius, Mons Vinogradov, Encke, Euler, Lambert, Bode, Gay-Lussac, Conon, Reinhold, Prinz, Bessarion, Fauth, Kunowsky, Mare Insularum, Murchison, Angstrom, Wallace, Beer, Brayley, Sommering, Milichius, Dembowski, Montes Archimedes, Maestlin, Draper, Sinus Aestuum, Feuillee, Fedorov, Zahringer, Montes Harbinger, Artsimovich, Heinrich, Artemis, Pupin, Bancroft, Sampson, Caventou, Courtney, Huxley, Dorsum Arduino, Dorsum Grabau, Dorsum Thera, Dorsum Zirkel, Dorsa Stille, Dorsum Higazy. Excerpt: 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 orbit decay. For a list of all planetary missions, including orbiters and flybys, see List of Solar System probes. Note: Phobos landing was unsuccessfully attempted by Phobos 2 in 1989. Copernicus is a prominent lunar impact crater named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It is estimated to be about 800 million years old, and typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system. Copernicus is visible using binoculars, and is located slightly northwest of the center of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere. South of the crater is the Mare Insularum, and to the south-south west is the crater Reinhold. North of Copernicus are the Montes Carpatus, which lie at the south edge of Mare Imbrium. West of Copernicus is a group of dispersed lunar hills. Du...
