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Home This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech /LANL/CNES/ESA/Thomas Pesquet) This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech /LANL/CNES/ESA/Thomas Pesquet)

This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech /LANL/CNES/ESA/Thomas Pesquet)

This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech /LANL/CNES/ESA/Thomas Pesquet)

This fragment of a Martian meteorite, seen floating inside the International Space Station, is is now part of a calibration target for SuperCam, one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech /LANL/CNES/ESA/Thomas Pesquet)

The calibration target for SHERLOC, one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, features a slice of Martian meteorite, plus spacesuit materials, including helmet-visor material that doubles as a geocache target. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A placard on the Perseverance Mars rover commemorates NASA’s “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign. Three small chips affixed to the upper-left corner of the placard feature the names of 10,932,295 people who participated, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA’s “Name the Rover” contest. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)