NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is one of the agency’s most ambitious yet, but the rover that will be the star of the show has lived its entire life inside of NASA’s facilities without a name. Now, after a months-long contest where K-12 students could submit their own name suggestions, the robot formerly known as “the Mars 2020 rover” is now officially Perseverance.
NASA announced the name at a press event on Thursday, revealing the winning moniker and its creator, seventh-grade student Alexander Mather. The name was chosen out of a pool of 28,000 entries.
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