The next NASA rover headed to Mars has been named Perseverance. That was the winning moniker selected in Nasa’s “Name the Rover” essay contest which began last summer. Alexander Mather, a seventh-grader from Springfield Virginia submitted the winning essay that proposed the name Perseverance. He wrote “If you think about it, all names of past Mars rovers are qualities we possess as humans. We have the spirit and insight to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond. But if rovers are to be the qualities of us as a race, we missed the most important thing, “Perseverance”. Perseverance is now at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final preparations before it launches to space in July, and is scheduled to land on Feb 18, 2021. NASA has landed four rovers on Mars successfully. Perseverance will make a more careful search for molecules considered to be the building blocks of life. The Perseverance rover will gather Martian soil and rock samples which are to be collected and return to Earth by a future NASA mission.
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