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Insight will carry over two million names to Mars
by Staff Writers
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2017


The grand total once a second microchip is added in early 2018 will be 2,429,807 names.

Last month, NASA invited members of the public to send their names to Mars. And the public responded loud and clear.

More than 1.6 million people signed up to have their names etched on a microchip that will be carried on NASA's upcoming InSight mission, which launches in May of 2018.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, reopened the opportunity after it proved successful in 2015. During that open call, nearly 827,000 names were collected for a microchip that now sits on top of the robotic InSight lander.

The grand total once a second microchip is added in early 2018 will be 2,429,807 names.

Space enthusiasts who signed up this last round shared their downloadable "boarding passes" on social media, complete with the total number of flight miles they've collected by participating in engagement initiatives for other Mars missions.

InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planet's interior by listening for marsquakes.

These quakes travel through geologic material at different speeds and give scientists a glimpse of the composition and structure of the planet's inside.

The insights into how Mars formed will help us better understand how other rocky planets are created.

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When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA's first rover, Sojourner. Since then, camera technology has taken a quantum leap. Photo sensors that were improved by the space program have become commercially ubiquitous. Cameras have shrunk in size, increased in quality and are now carried in every cellp ... read more

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