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InSight's Second Microchip

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin2018-01-23

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Technicians at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado installed a microchip with 1.6 million names submitted by the public to ride along with NASA's InSight mission to Mars. The chip was installed on Jan. 23, 2018. This joins another microchip that was previously installed that included 800,000 names for a grand total of 2.4 million names going to Mars as early as May 5, 2018.

The microchip including names from the NASA InSight mission's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign was affixed to the spacecraft with a special glue.

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22206

Details

  • Title: InSight's Second Microchip
  • Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin
  • Date Created: 2018-01-23
  • Rights: JPL
  • Album: kboggs

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