NASA Announces Name Of Mars 2020 Rover: Perseverance Written 6 March 2020
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NASA’s next Mars rover has a new name: “Perseverance” | NASA
The AP reports that NASA has announced the name of its next Mars Rover: “Perseverance.” The name was proposed by “Alex Mather, a Virginia seventh-grader, as part of a naming contest for U.S. schoolchildren.” NASA will also fly Mather and his family to Cape Canaveral to watch Perseverance be launched in July. NASA Associate Administrator for Science Missions Thomas Zurbuchen “noted that the space agency’s Curiosity rover has been roaming around Mars since 2012, when Alex and his classmates were babies or little kids.” Zurbuchen said, “Perseverance and curiosity together are what exploration is all about.”
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