{"id":17774,"date":"2020-03-05T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/perseverance-nasa-reveals-the-name-of-its-next-mars-rover-suggested-by-a-seventh-grader\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T11:49:46","slug":"perseverance-nasa-reveals-the-name-of-its-next-mars-rover-suggested-by-a-seventh-grader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/perseverance-nasa-reveals-the-name-of-its-next-mars-rover-suggested-by-a-seventh-grader\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance! NASA reveals the name of its next Mars rover, suggested by a seventh-grader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_551353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551353\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-551353\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200305-rover2-630x318.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Mars rover\" width=\"630\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200305-rover2-630x318.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200305-rover2-1260x637.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200305-rover2-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200305-rover2.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-551353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s conception shows NASA\u2019s next rover at work on the Martian surface. (NASA Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA\u2019s next Mars rover was&nbsp;named Perseverance today, following up on a suggestion made by a seventh-grader in Virginia.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 28,000 entries were submitted in NASA\u2019s \u201cName the Rover\u201d contest, and internet users racked up 770,000 online votes for their favorites. Judges selected the entry from Alex Mather, a student at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., as the winner.<\/li>\n<li>NASA\u2019s associate administrator for science, Thomas Zurbuchen, said Perseverance will be a fitting complement to the Curiosity rover, which is still going strong on Mars almost eight years after its landing. \u201cPerseverance and curiosity together are what exploration is all about,\u201d Zurbuchen said.<\/li>\n<li>Perseverance is scheduled for launch from Florida in mid-July, and is due to land in Mars\u2019 Jezero Crater next February. One of its tasks will be to collect samples for potential return to Earth during a later mission. \u201cIt will be the first leg of the first round trip of humanity to Mars, bringing back samples that tell us secrets about life itself,\u201d Zurbuchen said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s conception shows NASA\u2019s next rover at work on the Martian surface. (NASA Illustration) NASA\u2019s next Mars rover was&nbsp;named Perseverance today, following up on a suggestion made by a seventh-grader in Virginia. More than 28,000 entries were submitted in NASA\u2019s \u201cName the Rover\u201d contest, and internet users racked up 770,000 online votes for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4704,367,190,4706],"class_list":["post-17774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-mars-rover","tag-mars","tag-nasa","tag-perseverance-rover"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}