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NASA Congratulates Rover Naming Contest Winner
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Caption:
Lori Glaze , director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, looks on as Thomas Zurbuchen , associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, congratulates Alexander Mather on March 5, 2020, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. The seventh grader had the honor of naming the agency's next Mars rover after submitting the winning entry to the agency's " Name the Rover " essay contest, which received 28,000 entrants from K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory.
Background Info:
For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ .
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Mars | |
| System | ||
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Mars 2020 | |
| Instrument Host | Perseverance | |
| Host Type | Rover | |
| Instrument | ||
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | ||
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2020-03-05 | |
| Date in Caption | 2020-03-05 | |
| Image Credit | NASA | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23762 | |
| Identifier | PIA23762 | |
