NASA opens window to send names on future Mars mission, over 11 mn registrations so far

As NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover is set to fly for red planet, ncy has opened reservations to send names for future Mars mission. official Twitter handle of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover shared a link to obtain a boarding pass for people who want to send ir name to Mars on US ncy's next flight to uninhabited planet.

People can on link shared by NASA and enter ir name along with postal code and email id. A boarding pass will be generated which shows Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida as launch site and Jezero Crater, Mars as arrival site, with a scheduled departure in July 2026. Over 11 million people have registered for it so far and number continues to increase.

Meanwhile, countdown for Perseverance Mars Rover has started and will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Center at 5.20pm IST on July 30. Perseverance rover, built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Sourn California, is loed with scientific instruments, vanced computational capabilities for landing and or new systems. 

Mars orbiters have been collecting ims and data from Jezero Crater from about 322 kilometres above, but Perseverance will help understand Mars’ past climate conditions. It will also re geological history embedded in its rocks, giving scientists a richer sense of what planet was like in its distant past. 

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Study of geology and climate

study of Red Planet’s geology and climate could also give a sense of why Earth and Mars, which formed from same primordial stuff, ended up so different. Perseverance will be first rover to bring a sample caching system to Mars that will pack promising samples for return to Earth by a future mission. 

Perseverance’s drill will cut intact rock cores that are about size of a piece of chalk and will place m in sample tubes that it will store until rover reaches an appropriate drop-off location. It will also carry a techlogy demonstration called MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) which will produce oxygen from Mars’ carbon dioxide atmosphere, demonstrating a way that future explorers might produce oxygen for rocket propellant as well as for breathing.

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