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Feature ID	Feature Name	Clean Feature Name	Target	Diameter	Center Latitude	Center Longitude	Northernmost Latitude	Southernmost Latitude	Easternmost Longitude	Westernmost Longitude	Coordinate System	Continent	Ethnicity	Feature Type	Feature Type Code	Quad	Approval Status	Approval Date	Reference	Origin	Additional Info	Last Updated
15967	Lunokhod Planitia	Lunokhod Planitia	Pluto	557.00	30.75	109.57	43.99	17.50	119.58	99.56	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360	Europe	Soviet	Planitia, planitiae	PL	-	Approved	Feb 03, 2021	[606]	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.	None	Feb 03, 2021
15966	Ranger Planitia	Ranger Planitia	Pluto	370.59	20.89	127.91	29.40	11.52	135.91	119.91	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360	North America	United States	Planitia, planitiae	PL	-	Approved	Feb 03, 2021	[605]	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.	None	Feb 09, 2021
16082	Rosetta Planitia	Rosetta Planitia	Pluto	480.00	-22.31	157.22	-11.34	-33.27	166.48	147.92	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360	Europe	European (Multiple ET)	Planitia, planitiae	PL	-	Approved	May 27, 2022	[637]	Rosetta mission, the first mission to orbit and land a spacecraft on a comet.		Jun 07, 2022
15669	Sputnik Planitia	Sputnik Planitia	Pluto	1492.00	19.51	178.69	49.61	-22.18	197.66	153.08	Planetocentric, +East, 0 - 360	Europe	Soviet	Planitia, planitiae	PL	-	Approved	Aug 08, 2017	[59]	Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 (literally Satellite 1), the first human-built satellite of the Earth (1957).	None	Sep 15, 2017

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