He landed in the crater Lake named after a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, the inhabitants of this Bosnian town recently watched with excitement the whole day as the mission turned out on Mars on February 18. During this event, a volleyball match took place in the village between the teams of Mars and Earth.
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“We hope that the rover will send us the first results of his work soon,” said one of the organizers of the event.
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The word lake is of Slavic origin, and scientists named the crater because there was a lake here in the past. The Delta River flowed into it. The crater was named in 2007 by the Astronomical Union, which traditionally gives places in space after the terrestrial ones. Twelve years later, NASA’s director of Mars Discovery wrote a letter to the mayor of Lake confirming the connection.
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It took the spacecraft almost seven months to reach Mars. Perseverance will acquire and store rock samples that future missions should transport to Earth for analysis. NASA hopes that the $ 2.7 billion mission will be able to discover new geological knowledge about the planet and possibly its original microscopic life.
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The mayor of Jezero hopes that the connection with this planet will inspire the scientific curiosity of the current young Bosnian generation.
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“Who knows. Maybe when samples from Mars return to Earth in the future and scientists continue their research. It can inspire some children to be interested in a scientific career, “says Sněžana Ružičičová.
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At the moment, however, Perseverance is helping this town to become at least a more famous place on Earth.
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