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for more than two years the perseverance

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Rover team has added over 850 names for

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Martian rocks drill targets and other

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locations and we're going to need a lot

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more but where do these names come from

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here in the operations area for the

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perseverance Rover the team is driving

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into new Martian terrain every day just

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like our other rover Curiosity I'm

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joined today with Tina Seeger who's

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going to tell us a little bit about her

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role on the Rover teams and why it's

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important well I'm a geologist who

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studies rocks on Mars so just like on

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Earth geologists on Mars rely on

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familiar names on a map to understand

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the landscape and communicate with each

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other about the rock scene by The Rovers

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curiosity and perseverance are located

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in different craters more than 2 000

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miles from each other and naming rocks

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in those craters after places on Earth

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curiosity just drilled ubahara named

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after a national park in Brazil and

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perseverance is studying Belva crater

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Belva is a town in West Virginia named

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after Belva Ann Lockwood who was one of

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the first women to run for president

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so who decides the names on Mars well

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official names get assigned by the

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international astronomical Union which

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has strict guidelines for features

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across the whole solar system

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small craters on Mars must be named

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after small towns like Belva or lake

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jezero where perseverance is located

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which means Lake in many Slavic

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languages

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smaller features like rocks Cliffs

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meteorites those get nicknames chosen by

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the Rover teams that are not official

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but they do stick

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how do you come up with the names for

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these smaller features like rocks well

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in the 90s they came up with names on

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the Fly and that's why you got silly

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names like Barnacle Bill Indiana Jones

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but now we compile lists of names ahead

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of time based on different themes we

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draw a grid on the map where each square

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is a different quadrant that represents

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a different theme Curiosity has used

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names from South America Scotland

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perseverance uses names from national

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parks around the world how were these

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names decided names can come from

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anywhere in your imagination going back

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to Pathfinder a rock looked like the

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face of Yogi Bear and got the name Yogi

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rock this meteorite is heat shield Rock

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which sits near debris from

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opportunities heat shield drilled Rock

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samples that perseverance has dropped

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for collection also have names like bear

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wallow which is named after a hiking

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trail in Shenandoah National Park one of

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my favorite curiosity targets is called

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Bonanza King which is named after the

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Bonanza King rock formation Near Death

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Valley here we see an area that

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resembles a strip of bacon when viewed

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from space so we jokingly called it the

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bacon strip since arriving at the site

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with perseverance we had to give it a

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name that fit the Shenandoah theme so we

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chose hog wallow Flats if you could come

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up with a name for a rock what would it

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be I spent seven Summers as the night

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skies Ranger at Mount Rainier National

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Park so I'd probably pick something

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named after Mount Rainier or a place

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that's special to me inside the park

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luckily I got to map the Mount Rainier

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quadrant in Jezreel crater so if we

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drive through it that dream might become

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a reality to get the latest updates on

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curiosity and perseverance follow at

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NASA JPL and at NASA Mars on social

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