https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/us/mars-rover-2020-name-perseverance-scn-trnd/index.html
Perseverance
It will be accompanied by a small helicopter.
Ingenuity
The new name has been assigned to NASA's Mars 2020 rover, launching this July and scheduled to land on the red planet in February 2021.
The winning name was entered during a nationwide contest by Alexander Mather, a seventh grade student in Virginia. He will be invited to watch the spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this summer.
The 2020 rover's work will begin in areas of Jezero Crater, where it will search for signs of ancient life, including mineral deposits and perhaps even microscopic fossils. If 2020 samples these sites, the intriguing soil will be stored in metal tubes, and the data it collects may be able to help scientists know if they've found a biosignature on Mars.
Perseverance
It will be accompanied by a small helicopter.
Ingenuity
The new name has been assigned to NASA's Mars 2020 rover, launching this July and scheduled to land on the red planet in February 2021.
The winning name was entered during a nationwide contest by Alexander Mather, a seventh grade student in Virginia. He will be invited to watch the spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this summer.
The 2020 rover's work will begin in areas of Jezero Crater, where it will search for signs of ancient life, including mineral deposits and perhaps even microscopic fossils. If 2020 samples these sites, the intriguing soil will be stored in metal tubes, and the data it collects may be able to help scientists know if they've found a biosignature on Mars.
