NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Take Names of 11 Million People to Mars

NASA will launch its Perseverance Rover to Mars this year. The mission will be special for those who took part in the "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign, as their names would ride aboard this rover. Names of over 10.9 million people have been stencilled on silicon chips. These chips were then attached to the aluminium plate on the Perseverance Mars rover at슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This rover is scheduled to launch this summer and will land at the슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Named 'Perseverance' by Alexander Mather, Seventh-Grader From Virginia.

The 'Send Your Name to Mars' campaign invited people from all over the world to submit their names. NASA received over슬롯 머신 사이트 추천10,932,295 entries. Three chips the size of a finger have been attached on the anodized plate. With the use of laser etching technology, the names have been written on these chips. There are also essays of 155 finalists in the NASA's contest.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천NASA to Hire Astronauts to Explore Moon and Mars; Here슬롯사이트™s How You Can Apply.

Check NASA's Tweet About Names Stenciled on Chips of Rover:

All aboard, !

Essays from 's 슬롯사이트œName the Rover슬롯사이트� contest, along with 10.9+ million names you sent in through the 슬롯사이트œSend Your Name to Mars슬롯사이트� campaign, were stenciled on three chips. They슬롯사이트™re now secured to the 2,300-pound rover. Take a look:

슬롯사이트� NASA JPL (@NASAJPL)

Soon as it was revealed, people who have registered in the contest took to Twitter to show off their boarding passes. Check some tweets below:

Boarding Pass!

My boarding pass.🕺💃

슬롯사이트� Evans Mulaudzi Snr II (@DevilsVernom)

There in Too!

I am there too.🙃

슬롯사이트� Åžerzan HeybetoÄŸlu (@Scherzann)

The wide outbreak of Coronavirus has not affected the launch date of this mission.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천On March 21, the team began reconfiguring the rover so it can ride atop the Atlas V rocket.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천The슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Perseverance rover is a robotic scientist weighing just under 2,300 pounds (1,043 kilograms). It will슬롯 머신 사이트 추천search for signs of past microbial life, characterize Mars' climate and geology, collect samples for a future return to Earth, and help understanding more about the exploration of the Red슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Planet.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천

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