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NASA is using the Navajo language to name features on the surface of Mars. Aaron Yazzie, a Navajo NASA engineer, said he hopes this helps students take pride in their language.
“This fateful landing on Mars has created a special opportunity to inspire Navajo youth not just through amazing scientific and engineering feats, but also through the inclusion of our language in such a meaningful way,” Aaron Yazzie, a Navajo engineer at NASA, said in a release.
With his help, NASA partnered with the Navajo Nation, first teaching their own engineers and later the Perseverance rover itself, translating Navajo words into English letters, although without special characters or punctuation.
“The partnership that the Nez-Lizer Administration has built with NASA will help to revitalize our Navajo language,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez in the release. “We hope that having our language used in the Perseverance mission will inspire more of our young Navajo people to understand the importance and the significance of learning our language. Our words were used to help win World War II, and now we are helping to navigate and learn more about the pla
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NASA team uses Navajo language to name Mars land features seen in Perseverance rover images sent back from planet s 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 Ha ahóni in Navajo language
Rover s first scientific focus is a rock named Máaz – the Navajo word for Mars