NASA - NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name.

The following is the essay written by Clara Ma, winner of the Mars Science Laboratory naming contest. Twelve-year-old Ma submitted the winning entry, Curiosity. Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. It orbits the sun at a span of about 140 million miles. Looking up at Mars from Earth the planet Mars appears fiery red. The surface is almost.

Clara had the honor of signing the rover, because she had suggested that name in an essay contest when she was 11 years old. CLARA MA: The picture of curiosity that I had as a kid, was just one.

Clara Ma is a high school sophomore in Lenexa, Kan. She enjoys reading, writing, playing the piano, tennis and looking at the stars. In 2009, Clara won an essay contest to name NASA’s Mars.

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Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. The overall objectives include investigating Mars' habitability, studying its climate and geology, and collecting data for a human mission to Mars. The rover carries a variety of scientific instruments.

In addition to a name, the kids had to write an essay explaining the name and why they chose it. After combing through more than 9,000 entries Clara Ma, a middle schooler from Lenexa, Kansas.

Graduating SM East senior Clara Ma has gotten plenty of accolades during her time at 7500 Mission Road. But none may be as distinguished as the honor she found out she received this week. Ma was named one of just 141 U.S. Presidential Scholars from across the country — considered the pre-eminent academic honor for American high school students.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will finally have a name soon, thanks to the thousands of students who sent in their submissions to NASA’s “Name the Rover” essay contest.

Curiosity got its name from student Clara Ma, who as a sixth grader, entered an essay contest to name the next Mars rover. Her essay was chosen from 9,000 entries and as part of her winnings, Ma signed her name on the rover before it was packed for its journey to Mars.

NASA received more than 28,000 names and essay submissions from K-12 students around the U.S. and have been narrowing. sixth-grade student Clara Ma came up with the name Curiosity for that.

In December 2008, a young student named Clara Ma submitted a name for a project NASA then called the “Mars Science Laboratory.” With a 250 word essay, Clara suggested the name “Curiosity.” The Curiosity rover has covered over 13 miles of terrain on the Martian surface. Seven years later, the car-sized robotic explorer is the face of.

The campaign to name NASA’s next Mars rover is now underway.Yesterday (Aug. 27), the space agency began asking K-12 students around the United States to submit monikers for the life-hunting, sample-caching robotic explorer, which is currently known as Mars 2020.