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Members of the public
who want to send their name to Mars on NASA's next rover mission to the Red
Planet (Mars 2020) can get a souvenir boarding pass and their names etched on
microchips to be affixed to the rover. Credits:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Ken
Kremer -- SpaceUpClose.com &
RocketSTEM – 2 June 2019
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – As NASA’s next Mars Rover nears completion the agency is inviting the public to send their name along for the journey that begins with blastoff in July 2020 of the ‘2020 Rover.’
“NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names — stenciled on chips — to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which represents the initial leg of humanity’s first round trip to another planet. The rover is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020, with the spacecraft expected to touch down on Mars in February 2021,” NASA announced.
From now until Sept. 30, you can send your name to Mars by adding it to NASA’s list and obtain a souvenir boarding pass to Mars here:
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – As NASA’s next Mars Rover nears completion the agency is inviting the public to send their name along for the journey that begins with blastoff in July 2020 of the ‘2020 Rover.’
“NASA is giving the public an opportunity to send their names — stenciled on chips — to the Red Planet with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which represents the initial leg of humanity’s first round trip to another planet. The rover is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020, with the spacecraft expected to touch down on Mars in February 2021,” NASA announced.
From now until Sept. 30, you can send your name to Mars by adding it to NASA’s list and obtain a souvenir boarding pass to Mars here:
https://go.nasa.gov/Mars2020Pass
Over 6.6 million people have already signed up to place their names on the chips as of today, June 2.
Thus the excitement for our next journey to the Red Planet's surface with the 2020 rover is already building.
"As we get ready to launch this historic Mars mission, we want everyone to share in this journey of exploration," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in Washington.
"It’s an exciting time for NASA, as we embark on this voyage to answer profound questions about our neighboring planet, and even the origins of life itself.”
The 1 ton rover (2,300 pounds, 1,000 kilograms) is nearly a copy of the NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab rover but with a new suite of science instruments.
It is being targeted to touch down at Jezero Crater in 2021.
Over 6.6 million people have already signed up to place their names on the chips as of today, June 2.
Thus the excitement for our next journey to the Red Planet's surface with the 2020 rover is already building.
"As we get ready to launch this historic Mars mission, we want everyone to share in this journey of exploration," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) in Washington.
"It’s an exciting time for NASA, as we embark on this voyage to answer profound questions about our neighboring planet, and even the origins of life itself.”
The 1 ton rover (2,300 pounds, 1,000 kilograms) is nearly a copy of the NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab rover but with a new suite of science instruments.
It is being targeted to touch down at Jezero Crater in 2021.
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NASA's Mars 2020
will land in Jezero Crater, pictured here. The image was taken by
instruments on NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter, which regularly takes images of potential
landing sites for future missions. Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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