Shortlisted names: Endurance, Tenacity, Perseverance, Clarity and Fortitude.
March 5, 2020, 8:27 PMThe 1.8 billion-pixel image was captured by the Curiosity Rover.The space agency named Alexander Mather, a seventh grader from Lake Braddock Secondary School in Virginia, as the winner of the"Name the Rover" contest. Mather was one of 28,000 entries for the contest nationwide.
An illustration released by NASA on Feb. 10, 2020, depicts the Mars 2020 rover drilling a rock sample on Mars. The students who entered the contest -- ranged from kindergarten to grade 12 -- came up with suitable one-word names for the rover and were required to submit a short essay explaining why they chose the name.The contest started in August 2019 when the space agency wanted to challenge young students to learn about a real NASA mission, apply critical thinking skills and form questions about a place they may have not heard of.
After polls closed, the nine student finalists were interviewed by a panel including NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, NASA rover driver Nick Wiltsie and Clara Ma -- who named the Mars rover Curiosity in 2009 as a sixth grader.NASA said Mather will then be invited to see the spacecraft launch in July or August from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Mars is pictured in an image made with the Hubble Space Telescope when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016.The Mars 2020 rover mission is part of NASA’s Mars exploration program, which has been a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
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