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NASA team uses Navajo language to name Mars land features seen in Perseverance rover images sent back from planets surface Navajo Nation granted the team permission to use a list of words from its language to name formations Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer provided a list of words for the project Perseverance was translated to Haahóni in Navajo language Rovers first scientific focus is a rock named Máaz – the Navajo word for Mars

NASA using Navajo language to name Mars land features Brian P. D. Hannon For Dailymail.Com and Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The team operating NASAs Perseverance rover has started cataloging geological formations on the surface of Mars with names from the Navajo language. The names are a nod to the projects large contingent from universities and national labs in New Mexico and Arizona, states that include traditional Navajo land,...

"Since my first encounter with the novel nearly two decades ago, there have been few, if any, books and even fewer authors who have meant as much to me as  Kindred and Octavia Butler," said Jacobs-Jenkins in a statement. "It has been the highlight and honor of my career thus far to try and finally bring this timeless story to life — and especially at FX, whose catalogue of bold, thought-provoking, and cutting-edge television has been an endless source of inspiration and delight." Kindred t...

The rover snapped photos of its wheel tracks in the Martian dirt. Now NASA engineers and scientists are plotting Perseverances route to an ancient river delta. NASAs Perseverance rover left its footprints on Mars on Thursday after going for its first drive. The jaunt proved the vehicle can make its way around the red planet. Since Perseverance landed in Mars Jezero Crater on February 18, it has been calibrating its instruments and upgrading software. In this initial drive, Perseverance moved ab...

NASAs Perseverance rover just went for its first drive on Mars, then spotted its own wheel tracks in the dirt mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen) © NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Perseverance rover captures its own wheel tracks during its first drive on Mars, on March 4, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASAs Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on Thursday. The rover snapped photos of its wheel tracks in the Martian dirt. Now NASA engineers and scientists are ...

An image sent back to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover shows the tread tracks left behind by its first drive on Mars on March 4. (NASA / JPL-Caltech) Fifteen years after her death, Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler has joined an exclusive pantheon of space luminaries memorialized on Mars. Today NASA announced that the Red Planet locale where its Perseverance rover touched down last month is called Octavia E. Butler Landing, in honor of a Black author who emphasized diversity ...

NASAs new Mars rover, Perseverance, made its first short drive on the Red Planet on Thursday and took images of its own wheel marks in the Martian dust.

Climate Point: Space hurricanes, deadly flea collars and potential life on Mars Mark Olalde, USA TODAY © Ramon Padilla Mars Promo 2 GWS Welcome to Climate Point, your weekly guide to climate, energy and environment news from around the Golden State and the country. In Palm Springs, Calif., I’m Mark Olalde. This is an exciting edition, complete with more details on Mars, straight from NASA. To get you warmed up, heres a space appetizer, courtesy of Doyle Rice over at USA Tod...

Mission team members are participating in a virtual teleconference to discuss milestones achieved so far since the Feb. 18 landing and those to come.

Now that’s what you call a photo finish.