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Washington, April 30
The first NASA helicopter on Mars has a name now and the credit goes to Vaneeza Rupani, a 17-year-old girl of Indian descent. Rupani, a high school student from Northport, Alabama, earned the honor of naming the helicopter after submitting her essay in NASA’s “Name the Rover” contest.
Destined to become the first aircraft to attempt a powered flight on another planet, NASA’s Mars Helicopter is officially called: Ingenuity, as Rupani suggests.
While NASA announced in March that its next rover would be named Perseverance based on the seventh-grade Alexander Mather test, the agency decided to also choose a name for the helicopter that will accompany the rover to Mars.
“Our Mars helicopter has a new name! Meet: Wit. Student Vaneeza Rupani came up with the name during our” name the rover “contest.
Rupani’s entry was among the 28,000 essays submitted by K-12 students from all US states and territories. USA “The ingenuity and brilliance of the people who work hard to overcome the challenges of interplanetary travel are what allow us all to experience the wonders of space exploration,” Rupani wrote in his essay, according to a NASA press release. .
Ingenuity and perseverance are slated to launch in July and land next February in Jezero Crater on Mars, the site of a lake that existed 3.5 billion years ago. – PTI
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