Humans possess an innate desire to explore, to search, to learn about the world around them.
And not just the one world.
Last week the planet watched as the Perseverance Mars Rover safely landed on the Martian surface. I have not done a lot of research on the project...I'm kind of a casual observer. I did hear yesterday how the rover got its name. There was a contest to name it and the winner was a young man who wrote an essay about perseverance. You can read about him by clicking: HERE.
Perseverance...
Well named.
So many things were put on hold last year, so many unfulfilled dreams, events that didn't take place, weddings without friends, funerals without family. I can't imagine what those in charge of the Mars mission thought when the whole world shut down. Years--decades, even--of planning hung in the balance. Billions of dollars, life-long work all at risk. Yet, the rockets left Earth, the spaceship traveled to Mars and the payload touched down.
The mission found a way to succeed.
Since I don't work in that environment, I have no idea if they could have delayed the launch, put the mission on hold like so many other things. They didn't. They persevered. They achieved their goal.
When the rover was named, the young man could not have imagined how much more apt the name would be. I guess that's why it was so perfectly.
Well done, to everyone involved.
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