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How did NASA's Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?

  • Written by Robert Greenberg, Dean of Arts, University of Auckland
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The world was excited by the news last week that NASA’s Perseverance rover had successfully landed in a Martian crater. The rover will now set about collecting samples from what scientists say was an ancient lake fed by a river. The name of this exotic Martian crater is Jezero.

As a South Slavic linguist, I immediately...

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