NASA announced Friday that the "perseverance" probe, which the agency will send to Mars, will carry more than 10.9 million names to the Red Planet.
The agency said - in a press statement - that after it invited those wishing all over the world to submit their names for the independence of the spacecraft "Perseverance"; it received ten million and 932 thousand and 295 responses.
The names were drawn by means of an electron beam on three silicon fingers the size of a fingernail, and then attached an aluminum plate to the spacecraft.
The probe is scheduled to be launched from the US Air Force's Cape Canaveral station in Florida, in July or August of next year, to land on the Red Planet in February next year, if it does not lead to a pandemic of the Corona virus emerging (Covid-19). Currently sweeping the world to postpone the task.
The probe, which weighs more than a thousand kilograms, is designed to search for signs of past microbial life on the Red Planet, and will study the climate and geology of Mars.