Send Your Name to Mars

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will send a brand new robotic explorer to the Red Planet’s surface as early as July next year. The NASA mission will precede any human exploration of Mars but will have a chance to indirectly land on the planet in spirit. Anyone who submits their name to NASA through the link below will have their name etched onto a microchip fixed to NASA’s Mars rover. Each name will be painstakingly “stencilled” onto a silicon chip with an electron beam, creating signatures no wider than one-thousandth the width of a human hair.

Using this incredibly fine technique, NASA can fit more than one million names on a chip the size of a coin, which will ride on the Mars rover under a glass cover. On top of the incredible privilege, you will receive a “souvenir boarding pass”, which you can show off to your friends and family. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said: “As we get ready to launch this historic Mars mission, we want everyone to share in this journey of exploration.

Click here to sent your name to Mars.

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https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1130422/NASA-news-Mars-2020-submit-name-boarding-pass-Mars-rover-launch