Want to send your name to Mars? NASA is giving you the opportunity to send your name to Mars etched on a microchip fixed to the rover. The rover is scheduled to launch in July 2020.
You will also get a souvenir boarding pass which you can show off with your friends.
Get your pass here
NASA will use an electron beam to stencil the submitted names onto a silicon chip with lines of text smaller than one-thousandth the width of a human hair (75 nanometers). At that size, more than a million names can be written on a single dime-sized microchip. The chip (or chips) will ride on the rover under a glass cover.
A final image of the chip will be put on Mars 2020 over homepage.
Over 6 million people have already booked their place to Mars.
Here is how you can send your name to Mars
STEP 1: Go to NASA’s Mars website
STEP 2: Fill in your name
STEP 3: Country
STEP 4: Postal Code
STEP 5: E-mail address
That’s it! you are done… After filling out everything you will get a souvenir pass which looks like this…
You better hurry up because your boarding pass will earn you frequent flyer points which later can be exchanged for exciting gifts.
Don’t forget to share this with your friends.
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How can we go
Hello, you can sign up using this link: https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/