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Mars 2020 Fun Facts
\n\nHitching a Ride
\n“Ingenuity” Robotic Helicopter
\nThe car-size Perseverance rover, named “Percy,” brought along the small, autonomous aircraft (weighs less than 4 pounds) for the first test of powered flight on another planet.
\nSounds of Mars
\nPercy is carrying a pair of microphones to provide interesting and historic audio of the arrival and landing at Mars.
\n \nSend Your Name to Mars
\nPercy has three fingernail-sized chips on board containing 10,932,295 names. These names include alumna Lauren DuCharme, her husband, Daniel Tchui ’13 (B.S. mechanical engineering), and her parents, Kelly and James DuCharme.
\nPercy’s New Home on the Red Planet
\n\n -81°F\n Average Temperature\n
\n\n\n 24 hours 37 minutes\n Length of Day\n
\n\n\n 687 days
\n almost twice as long as a year on Earth\n Length of Year\n
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Navajo Names
\nPercy’s team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President, is naming features of scientific interest with words in the Navajo language. The first is a rock named “Máaz” — the Navajo word for “Mars.”
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Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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