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Perseverance Rover at Cape

The plate on the aft crossbeam of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover carries 10,932,295 names submitted by people during NASA's Send Your Name to Mars campaign and essays of the 155 finalists in the Name the Rover contest.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Top center: The plate affixed to the aft crossbeam of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover — seen here on March 16, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida — carries 10,932,295 names submitted by people during NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign and essays of the 155 finalists in the "Name the Rover" contest.

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