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PIA23762: NASA Congratulates Rover Naming Contest Winner

NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen and Lori Glaze congratulate Alexander Mather, the seventh grader who submitted the winning entry Perseverance to the agency's Name the Rover essay contest.

Mission:	Mars 2020 Rover
Spacecraft:	Mars 2020 Rover
Product Size:	4082 x 2752 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA23762.tif (26.17 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA23762.jpg (1.16 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Lori Glaze, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division, looks on as Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, congratulates Alexander Mather on March 5, 2020, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. The seventh grader had the honor of naming the agency's next Mars rover after submitting the winning entry to the agency's "Name the Rover" essay contest, which received 28,000 entrants from K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.

Image Credit:

NASA

Image Addition Date:

2020-03-05