NASA's Going to Mars Campaign invites public to send their names and a personal message that will be taken to the atmosphere.
NASA will carry aboard a DVD that will contain messages from public in NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft set to launch in November 2013 to study Martian upper atmosphere.
The aim of the campaign is to ingnite the interest in NASA's Mars explorations in general public and get them involved.
"This mission will continue NASA's rich history of inspiring and engaging the public in spaceflight in ongoing Mars exploration," stated David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Going to Mars Campaign is coordinated together with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP). The University provides science operations, science instruments and leads Education and Public Outreach.
You can submit your name and message in the form of a three-line poem or haiku by July 1, 2013. Click HERE to join the campaign.
You can submit your name and message in the form of a three-line poem or haiku by July 1, 2013. Click HERE to join the campaign.
The DVD will carry every name that will be submitted. And among all messages, three most voted haikus will be chosen to be added on DVD. You can vote starting from July 15, 2013.
"The Going to Mars campaign offers people worldwide a way to make a personal connection to space, space exploration, and science in general, and share in our excitement about the MAVEN mission," stated Stephanie Renfrow, lead for the MAVEN Education and Public Outreach program at CU/LASP.
In addition, the participants of this campagin will receive a certificate of appreciation for their involvement with the MAVEN mission.
"This new campaign is a great opportunity to reach the next generation of explorers and excite them about science, technology, engineering and math," stated Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from CU/LASP. "I look forward to sharing our science with the worldwide community as MAVEN begins to piece together what happened to the Red Planet's atmosphere."
"This new campaign is a great opportunity to reach the next generation of explorers and excite them about science, technology, engineering and math," stated Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from CU/LASP. "I look forward to sharing our science with the worldwide community as MAVEN begins to piece together what happened to the Red Planet's atmosphere."
MAVEN spacecraft will study the loss of Mars' atmosphere to space and history of water on its surface. MAVEN is the first spacecraft that will explore Martian upper atmosphere.
"This mission will continue NASA's rich history of inspiring and engaging the public in spaceflight in ongoing Mars exploration," stated David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. The university will provide science operations, science instruments and lead Education and Public Outreach. Goddard manages the project and provides two of the science instruments for the mission. Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colo., built the spacecraft and is responsible for mission operations. The University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory provides science instruments for the mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., provides navigation support, the Deep Space Network and the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.
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