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NASA works with Navajo Nation to name new features discovered on Mars

NASA works with Navajo Nation to name new features discovered on Mars Aris Folley © NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA works with Navajo Nation to name new features discovered on Mars In collaboration with leaders of the Navajo Nation, the nation s largest Indian reservation, NASA is naming items of scientific interest discovered on Mars as part of its Perseverance rover s ongoing mission with words from the Navajo language. The space agency announced this month that it began naming features discovered using the rover, which landed on the Mars Jezero Crater last month, with words from the language after getting permission from Navajo leaders in addition to a list of 50 names approved names so far.

NASA using Navajo language to name Mars land features

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 NASA s 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 project s large contingent from universities and national labs in New Mexico and Arizona, states that include traditional Navajo land, Forbes reported. Perseverance, nicknamed Perky, landed on Mars February 18 following a 239-million mile journey.  The rover s first scientific focus is a rock named Máaz – the Navajo word for Mars.  

KUOW - Mapping Máaz: NASA Uses Navajo Language to Name Features on Mars

Mapping Máaz: NASA Uses Navajo Language to Name Features on Mars at 3:47 pm NPR One of the newest Martians, a NASA robot named Perseverance, has touched down, powered up, and gotten to work. Over the course of its mission, Perseverance will prowl around a small crater — the site of a possible ancient lake — and meander through what might be an old river delta, searching for biosignatures, or evidence of life. But like anywhere new and remote, it s easy to get turned around on Mars. The landscape is vast and features can look really similar to one another, so the teams of scientists working on the mission needed to get on the same page about what is where.

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