This project stopped taking names on November 15, 2002, midnight EST. The NAMES have landed on MARS!
The red arrow above points to one of the DVDs containing the names that were sent to Mars on both of the Mars Exploration Rover landers. Learn how the DVD was packaged for space flight. Both landers carried a copy of the Name Disk!
Each of the two Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft carried a DVD provided to NASA by The Planetary Society.
Mars Exploration Rover DVD |
