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Everyone knows the explorer rover "spirit" has landed on Mars successfully. It is expect to explore the surface of Mars in the following days, after it overcome the barriers before it.
Image courtesy of NASA
I am feeling connected with this little robot since it carried my name, Jian Shuo Wang, to the remote red planet.
Send Your Name to Mars Project
On December 10, 2001, I signed up the project and entered my name into it. Then my name has been burned into a DVD along with other participants?name. The disk bearing my name has been sent to Mars already.
I happily printed and kept my Mars Exploration Rover-2003 Mission Participation Certificate. The certificate is also available via NASA's name query page.
The DVD is There!!!
Here is the latest image transmitted from the rover. It clearly shows the DVD.
A picture of the DVD from Mars! Credit: NASA
Here is the closer look of the DVD.
Image courtesy of NASA
Below is the same disk before it was mounted to the lander. You see there is a robot there and Hello. Around its rim is a message, written in a secret code of dots and lines. I didn't try to decode it.
Image courtesy of Red Rover Goes to Mars
Below is the picture taken when the disk is installed onto “spirit?
Image Credit: NASA
"The red arrow above points to one of the DVDs containing the 3,551,645 names that are being sent to Mars on both of the Mars Exploration Rover. Click here to see a much higher resolution image disk! Learn how the DVD was packaged for space flight. Both landers will carry a copy of the Name Disk! ", the website announced.
Of cause, this project stopped taking names already. If you haven’t signed your name by November 15, 2002, midnight EST, you already missed the very good chance.
Now, there is a similar project: Deep Impact: Send Your Name to a Comet! I have got my certificate. Why not go there and sign up today?
P.S. It inspired me of a similar project - Send Your Name to Jian Shuo Wang's Kitchen. Do you want your name to be sticked to somewhere in the heart of the city of Shanghai? You can sign your name on this page, and I will write it down (instead of burning a DVD) with my own handwriting and posted to the refrigerator in my kitchen. Two pictures will be taken and posted when the paper successfully lands on the surface of my refrigerator. The deadline for sign up is December 20, 2004, Shanghai Time. :-D Just kidding.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at January 9, 2004 10:39 PM
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and this link: http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20040109_my_name_is_on_mars.htm
Did you include the URL http://www.wangjianshuo.com? :P
Posted by: WilliamW on January 9, 2004 10:28 PMI forgot the good choice of promption. :-D Haha. It is g a great idea though. Ha!
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on January 9, 2004 10:42 PMHa ... my name is also on Mars ... nice to meet you on Mars. :D
Posted by: Run Liu (external link) on January 11, 2004 2:20 PMYes ,My Name is in MARS too.I almost forget that.
Thanks for your reminder.
http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003/getcert3.cfm?uid=3307603
oh, I forgot about it too. Btw, I got two for myself and one for my little niece.
Posted by: eki (external link) on January 13, 2004 2:01 PMHehe. From my referer log, I foudn this blog http://lscafe.net/mt/archives/20040111134.html and learnt ced registered very early and his/her certificate id is 1199! Wow.
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on January 14, 2004 5:50 PMHello i constrocting a project for a robot to go mars who i send for you?
Excuse for my bad english but i speak portuguese.
Cya, Igor Azevedo
Posted by: Igor Azevedo on March 11, 2004 8:12 PMShould I be a lucky man to see my name on the Mars? Wonder, if my name is printed on the Mars.
I love NASA. i am in 10th grade and i am interested in space since 4th grade.
Posted by: IKSHITA SARAY on May 19, 2008 5:06 PM