Mission Name: Mars 2020 Rover Name: Perseverance Main Job: The Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth. What's in a name: Why NASA chose 'Perseverance' for its next Mars rover By Mike Wall 06 March 2020 The moniker captures the spirit of space exploration remarkably well, NASA officials said. The six-wheeled robotic explorer will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth.. [9] [10] [11] [5] The Science Definition Team proposed that the rover collect and package as many as 31 samples of rock cores and surface soil for a later mission to bring back for definitive analysis on Earth. Say hello to Perseverance. During a live webcast on Wednesday, NASA administrators unveiled the official name of the upcoming Mars 2020 Rover mission. As the "Name the Rover" contest winner, Mather and his family will be flown to Cape Canaveral as guests of NASA to view the launch of Perseverance … A plate with the name Perseverance was attached to the rover on March 4. The names were collected as part of NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign which … Launch Window: July 20 - Aug. 11, 2020 Launch Location: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida Landing: Feb. 18, 2021 Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars Mission Duration: At least one Mars year (about 687 Earth days) NASA just added over 10 million names to the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. After students submitted 28,000 pitches for the new Mars rover’s name, NASA chose Perseverance. NASA / JPL. As NASA gears up to launch its next rover to Mars, it has finally given the pioneering robot a name: Perseverance. Perseverance! Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth. NASA reveals the name of its next Mars rover, suggested by a seventh-grader by Alan Boyle on March 5, 2020 at 10:35 am March 5, 2020 at 10:55 am Perseverance è il nome del rover della prossima missione americana che sbarcherà su Marte. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s next Mars rover finally has a name.

NASA announced today that its next Mars Rover mission now has a formal name: Perseverance.. NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has a rendezvous with the Red Planet this summer. The final selection comes after a contest launched in 2019 that saw kindergarten through 12th-grade students across the United States submit 28,000 essays supporting their choice of name. Keeping … Perseverance è l'ultimo dei rover marziani il cui nome è stato scelto dagli studenti, come Spirit e Opportunity, approdati su Marte nel 2004, e Curiosity, che esplora Marte dal 2012. The Perseverance rover is planned for launch in 2020 on an Atlas V-541, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will manage the mission. The NASA Perseverance rover will be the first to bring back a chunk of Martian rock to Earth, and also record audio from the Martian surface.

An artist's conception of Perseverance on Mars. Interestingly, NASA hosted a 'name the rover' contest for school students in USA, the prestige of which was won by Virginia-based seventh grade student Alexander Mather.