The 'Send Your Name' placard attached to Perseverance, which touched down on Mars on February 18. Three silicon chips were stencilled with 10,932,295 namesAnyone wishing to sign up for Nasa's next interplanetary trip can do so by heading to the official Send Your Name To MarsHit "Sign up for the next flight" and plug in your name, address and email to secure your place.
Microchips engraved with millions of names will make the 34million mile journey aboard a rover mission planned for 2026Details on Nasa's next Mars mission are thin on the ground. It could involve another rover or an immobile lander,Working with Nasa, the European Space Agency will send a spacecraft to the Red Planet that year.
It will pick up handfuls of Martian soil and rock collected by Perseverance and left in titanium tubes on the planet's surface. The samples will be carried back to Earth and analysed by scientists for signs of alien microbes that may have inhabited Mars billions of years ago.Perseverance boasts a total of 19 cameras and two microphones, and carries seven scientific instruments.An X-ray “ray gun” that will help scientists investigate the composition of Martian rock.A ground-penetrating radar that will image buried rocks, meteorites, and even possible underground water sources up to a depth of 10 metres .
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