NASA has finally decided upon a name for its upcoming Mars rover and no, it’s not called Rover McRoverface. A follow-up to the space agency’s long-liv… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/335204/official-name-of-mars-2020-rover-is-revealed…
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NASA’s next Mars rover is called Perseverance and will search for life
Out of 28,000 suggestions, NASA selected the name Perseverance for its Mars 2020 rover, which will search for signs of life on the Red Planet Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236562-nasas-next-mars-rover-is-called-perseverance-and-will-search-for-life/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover goes coast-to-coast to prep for launch
NASA’s next Mars rover has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Red Planet this July. Two Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes carrying the Mars 2020 rover as well as the cruise stage, descent stage and Mars Helicopter touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at about 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) today, completing…
Help name the next Mars rover
Cast your vote to help name the next Mars rover, scheduled to launch in July or August 2020. The names were drawn from 9 finalist essays written by K-12 students. The voting will remain open through January 27. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/vote-name-new-nasa-mars-rover…
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover closer to getting its name
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is one step closer to having its own name after 155 students across the U.S. were chosen as semifinalists in the “Name the Rover” essay contest. Just one will be selected to win the grand prize—the exciting honor of naming the rover and an invitation to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air…
Meeting the NASA Mars rover that might find life on the Red Planet
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of life on Mars, and New Scientist’s Leah Crane visited it in the clean room where it is being assembled Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228915-meeting-the-nasa-mars-rover-that-might-find-life-on-the-red-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA Showcases Its New Mars Rover, Calls It Precursor to Humans on Mars
“The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle.” An anonymous reader quotes Agence France-Presse: The rover has been constructed in a large, sterile room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in…
Mars 2020 rover to launch within 7 months
NASA has confirmed that it has almost completed work on its upcoming robotic Mars exploration rover. A follow-up to the space agency’s Curiosity rover… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/333135/mars-2020-rover-to-launch-within-7-months…
Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare human missions
The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mars-rover-ancient-life-human.html…
Bringing Rocks Back From Mars
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission intended to achieve all this will require three launches from Earth over the course of a decade, and five separate machines. From a report: The organisations involved — America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, and the European Space Agency, ESA — are each responsible for specific craft in the chain of what David Parker,…