ARLA/CLUSTER: Envie o seu nome para Marte através da NASA

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Send your name to Mars

Mars enthusiasts around the world can participate in NASA’s journey to Mars
<https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasas-journey-to-mars> by adding their names
to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA's InSight
<http://www.nasa.gov/insight> Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.

"Our next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the
surface," said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA
Headquarters in Washington. "By participating in this opportunity to send
your name aboard InSight to the Red Planet, you're showing that you're part
of that journey and the future of space exploration."

Submissions will be accepted until Sept. 8. To send your name to Mars
aboard InSight, go to: http://go.usa.gov/3Aj3G

The fly-your-name opportunity comes with “frequent flier� points to reflect
an individual's personal participation in NASA’s journey to Mars, which
will span multiple missions and multiple decades. The InSight mission
offers the second such opportunity for space exploration fans to collect
points by flying their names aboard a NASA mission, with more opportunities
to follow.

Last December, the names of 1.38 million people flew on a chip aboard the
first flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts to
deep space destinations including Mars and an asteroid. After InSight, the
next opportunity to earn frequent flier points will be NASA's Exploration
Mission-1, the first planned test flight bringing together the Space Launch
System rocket and Orion capsule in preparation for human missions to Mars
and beyond.

InSight will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in March
2016 and land on Mars Sept. 28, 2016. The mission is the first dedicated to
the investigation of the deep interior of the planet. It will place the
first seismometer directly on the surface of Mars to measure Martian quakes
and use seismic waves to learn about the planet's interior. It also will
deploy a self-hammering heat probe that will burrow deeper into the ground
than any previous device on the Red Planet. These and other InSight
investigations will improve our understanding about the formation and
evolution of all rocky planets, including Earth.

For additional information about the InSight mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/insight/main/index.html

You can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:
https://www.facebook.com/NASAInSight
and
https://twitter.com/nasainsight
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