Mapping Máaz: NASA Uses Navajo Language to Name Features on Mars
Members of NASA's Perseverance rover team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, have been naming features of scientific interest with words in the Navajo language.
by Catherine Whelan
Mar 12, 2021
2 minutes
One of the newest Martians, has touched down, powered up, and . 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 .
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