The Name Game

摘要

may gaze across Bacalor, clamber down the slopes of Gander, or snap seifies from the bottom of Loon or Luck. Whether they visit Oscar & Amy, Princess Lily's Lookout, or De La Garza Robinson Unicornicopia is up for debate. All of those places are craters. The first set was named by scientists through the International Astronomical Union, while the second set was named by members of the public through Uwingu, a space advocacy group that earlier this year began selling the rights to name more than 500,000 craters ($5 and up per crater) for its own Mars map. The IAU warns that the public names won't be used by Mars scientists; Uwingu counters with basically "So what?"