Indian-origin girl names NASA's first Mars helicopter that will accompany the rover

National Aeronautics ncy (NASA) on April 29 anunced name of its first Mars helicopter that will accompany its rover on red planet. NASA anunced that its first Mars helicopter is named 'Ingenuity', which was suggested by an Indian-origin girl after she submitted her essay into NASA's 'Name Rover'. 17-year-old Vaneeza Rupani was credited for her suggestion by NASA on its official Twitter handle. 

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Rupani is a high school junior from rthport, Alabama and her essay was among 28,000 essays submitted to NASA by K-12 students from every US state and territory recommending names for next Mars rover. " ingenuity and brilliance of people working hard to overcome challenges of interplanetary travel are what allow us all to experience wonders of exploration. Ingenuity is what allows people to accomplish amazing things, and it allows us to expand our horizons to edges of universe," NASA quoted Rupani as writing in her contest submission.

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Ingenuity will be first aircraft to attempt powered flight on a different planet. "Ingenuity encapsulates values that our helicopter tech demo will showcase for everyone when it takes off next year as first aircraft on ar planet’s surface. It took a lot of hard and ingenious work to get helicopter rey and n placed on rover, and re’s a lot more going to be required. I was happy we h ar great name from naming contest finalists from which I was able to select something so representative of this exciting part of our next mission to Mars," NASA ministrator Jim Bridenstine was quoted as saying by ncy on its webp.

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NASA's rover naming contest

NASA in March finalised a name for its rover which was suggested by seventh-grer Alexander Mar. NASA named rover 'Perseverance' after name got most number of votes on a poll conducted by ncy on its social media handle. However, NASA decided to choose ar essay from submissions to name its helicopter because of so many good suggestions, said ncy. 

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(Im Credit: NASA/Twitter)