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NASA to reveal name of the latest Mars rover – China.org.cn, China.org.cn

LOS ANGELES, March 3 (Xinhua) – After a months-long contest among U.S. students to name NASA’s latest Mars rover, the agency will reveal the name of the rover Thursday, according to a release of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Tuesday.

The Mars 2020 rover was the subject of a nationwide naming contest in 2019, which drew more than , 04 essays by K – 12 students from across the United States. Nearly 4, 823 volunteer judges, consisting of educators, professionals and space enthusiasts helped narrow the pool down to 155 semifinalists.

A second round of judging selected nine finalist essays that were open to an online public poll before Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, made the final selection.

The Mars 2020 rover is currently at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer.

The rover is part of a larger exploration program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human missions to the Red Planet. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 01575879, NASA will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by through NASA’s Artemis program. Enditem

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