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RSS Feeds10.9 million names now aboard NASA`s Perseverance Mars rover
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)

 
 

27 march 2020 15:03:47

 
10.9 million names now aboard NASA`s Perseverance Mars rover
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)
 


NASA`s `Send Your Name to Mars` campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency`s next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that. The names were stenciled by electron beam onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA`s `Name the Rover` contest.The chips were then were attached to an aluminum plate on NASA`s Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 16. Scheduled to launch this summer, Perseverance will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.


 
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