Tina Seeger: Well, I'm a geologist who studies rocks on Mars. I'm joined today with Tina Seeger who's going to tell us a little bit about her role on the rover teams and why it's important. Marina Jurica: Here in the operations area for the Perseverance rover, the team is driving into new Martian terrain every day, just like our other rover, Curiosity. But where do these names come from? Let's find out the process. Tina Seeger: For more than two years, the Perseverance rover team has added over 850 names for Martian rocks, drill targets, and other locations. For the Curiosity and Perseverance missions, scientists have been systematically dividing their maps into quadrants and giving each quadrant a theme from which to draw names, such as national parks around the world.įor more information on the naming process, visit /news/9413/.įor more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit. This video discusses how official and unofficial names are decided by scientists who need a common language to reference while navigating Mars. Set in the Perseverance rover operations area at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this edition of the Mars Report features geologist Tina Seeger of Caltech explaining the process for naming Mars rocks, drill targets, and other locations as the teams explore. NASA’s Perseverance and Curiosity rovers are exploring new terrain on Mars every day, adding thousands of names to the Red Planet over the last few years.

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