NASA's Newest Mars Rover Named 'Perseverance' After 28,000.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Mars 2020 rover will soon get its own name. This is after more than 155 students across US were chosen as the semi-finalists in the 'Name the.
NASA's next Mars rover was named Perseverance in a K-12 naming contest.
The winner gets the honour of naming the rover as well as an invitation to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The essay writing competition from NASA saw participation from over 28,000 students across the US and the space agency has now narrowed it down to 155 students for the semifinals.
Up until Thursday, NASA’s newest rover was known simply as Mars 2020. But last August, NASA opened a nationwide “Name the Rover” contest open to K-12 school students. Some 28,000 entries.
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Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12 students across the U.S. to name NASA’s next Mars rover. Now you can help by voting for your favorite. Members of the public have an.
Starting Tuesday, K-12 students in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Mars 2020 Name the Rover essay contest. One grand prize winner will name the rover and be invited to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Name the Rover contest is part of NASA's efforts to engage.
The nine candidate names were made possible by the “Name the Rover” essay contest, which invited students in kindergarten through 12 th grade from across the United States to come up with a fitting name for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover and write a short essay about it.
Come back in early March when NASA announces the essay contest winner. NASA will invite the winning student to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Meanwhile, you can learn more about the Mars 2020 mission, and even see where the rover is now. More Semifinalist Essays.
NASA received more than 28,000 names and essay submissions from K-12 students around the U.S. and have been narrowing them down little by little. The next round of elimination will bring the.
Original Caption Released with Image: Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, looks on as Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, congratulates Alexander Mather on March 5, 2020, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia.The seventh grader had the honor of naming the agency's next Mars rover after.
The rover naming contest partnership was part of a Space Act Agreement in educational and public outreach efforts between NASA, Battelle of Columbus, Ohio, and Future Engineers of Burbank, California. Amazon Web Services is an additional prize provider for the Mars 2020 naming contest and will provide Alex and his family a trip to see the launch.
