{"id":650311,"date":"2020-03-27T07:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=650311"},"modified":"2020-03-27T07:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:12:25","slug":"10-9-million-names-now-aboard-nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=650311","title":{"rendered":"10.9 million names now aboard NASA&#039;s Perseverance Mars rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s &#8220;Send Your Name to Mars&#8221; campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency&#8217;s next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people did just that. The names were stenciled by electron beam onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA&#8217;s &#8220;Name the Rover&#8221; contest.The chips were then were attached to an aluminum plate on NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Mars rover at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 16. Scheduled to launch this summer, Perseverance will land at Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-03-million-aboard-nasa-perseverance-mars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">10.9 million names now aboard NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Mars rover<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s &#8220;Send Your Name to Mars&#8221; campaign invited people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency&#8217;s next rover to the Red Planet. Some 10,932,295 people&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}