Send your name to Mars

[Winston]

A few months old, so this may have been posted here before, but here it is in case it was missed.

You Can Send Your Name to the Red Planet on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover

https://www.space.com/your-name-on-mars-2020-rover.html

Mission team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, will use an electron beam to etch submitted names onto a microchip, in lines of text that are less than 0.1% as wide as a human hair. About 1 million names can be squeezed onto a single chip, NASA officials said.

More than one microchip may be needed to handle the demand. NASA organized a similar engagement campaign for the agency's Mars InSight lander, which touched down on the Red Planet in November 2018, and more than 2 million people submitted their monikers.

Getting your name (way) out there is easy; just fill out the short form here by Sept. 30. You'll get a Mars "boarding pass" for your minimal trouble:

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020

 

[kuririn]

What the hey? Three times more Turks signed up than Americans? And India is ahead of the US? What's going on?

 

[Hobie1dog]

Americans are too busy with their heads glued to cell phone screens.

 

[BABAR]

Americans are too busy with their heads glued to cell phone screens.

Or worried about Martian ID theft!

 

[BBowmaster]

I want to send my name to Mars but I’d prefer it to be on my space suit rather then invisibly engraved.

 

[Winston]

I want to send my name to Mars but I’d prefer it to be on my space suit rather then invisibly engraved.

Wouldn't we all, as long as I could be instantly transported there and back so as not to suffer cosmic ray dain bramage. Unfortunately, tiny text on a chip will have to do. It's a meager kind of immortality, probably longer lasting than a headstone.