0.1 miles away
ASU Art Museum
The ASU Art Museum in Tempe holds a permanent collection and runs a guest artist programme alongside an attached gift shop.
ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
An ASU facility in Tempe supporting the Thermal Emission Spectrometer aboard the 1996 Mars Global Surveyor, with a public visitor area.
- Rank in Arizona
- #634of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 24.2 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Museum
The ASU Mars Space Flight Facility is a research facility at Arizona State University in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. It supports the Thermal Emission Spectrometer experiment carried aboard the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, launched in November 1996. The facility has a visitor area with displays about Mars and a television tuned to NASA TV.
Where it is
ASU Mars Space Flight Facility is a museum near Tempe, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
No official visitor count is published for ASU Mars Space Flight Facility, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the low confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://mars.asu.edu/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Tempe
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 24.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- mars.asu.edu(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4180, -111.9362
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12