Send Your Name to Mars: Insight

【想不想到火星去?】對人類來,上火星暫時仍是個遙遠的夢想。不過,美國太空總署(NASA) 現在提供一個機會,讓你的名字比你的肉身更早登陸火星!

Did you dream of taking a journey to Mars? For most human beings nowadays, traveling to Mars is still a dream. However, NASA made it a chance for your name to put on a micro-size chip and fly aboard Orion! Does it sound fabulous? Go sign up your names at their website quickly!


98日前,只要到 NASA 網站登記,就可以將你的名字加到 InSight 探測器的晶片上,跟著它一同探索火星。當 InSight 起飛時,你更會收到由NASA發出的通知及虛擬登機證,好玩吧!

看!這是我們丫丫園地的虛擬登機證喔!


 

According to NASA:

YOUR NAME MAY BE ON THIS CHIP!

This close-up image of the dime-size microchip, carries 1.3 million names that will fly aboard Orion. Engineers “wrote” 1.3 million names onto this tiny 0.8 cm-square (8 mm-square) silicon wafer microchip.


Adding Your Name on to the InSight Chip

Magnified 500 times, a human hair would cover most of names shown this closeup of the Orion Microchip. A human hair is about 100 micrometers or 0.0039 inches.

加州是最多人登記的喔!

InSight 探測器將於 20163月發射,預計在同年 928日登陸火星。它將在火星地表鑽洞及挖掘,可望讓科學家首次研究火星的部,以助了解火星的形成過程。

想讓自己的大名衝出地球,留在火星上,就要趕快上網登記囉:http://go.usa.gov/3Aj3G

http://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/insight/

InSight Mission – Animation of Spacecraft