Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL) Lockheed Martin Paris Institute of Earth Physics (IPGP) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) Imperial College London Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE-SUPAERO) University of Oxford Spanish Astrobiology Center (CAB) Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK) Name chips As part of its public outreach, NASA organized a program where members of the public were able to have their names sent to Mars aboard InSight. Due to its launch delay, two rounds of sign-ups were conducted totaling 2.4 million names: 826,923 names were registered in 2015 and a further 1.6 million names were added in 2017. An electron beam was used to etch letters only the width of a human hair (1 μm) onto silicon wafers. The first chip was installed on the lander in November 2015 and the second on 23 January 2018. Gallery Context map See also References External links InSight NASA – InSight Mission InSight NASA – InSight Raw Images InSight NASA – (video/03:31; 18 November 2018; Details) InSight NASA – (video/01:38; 26 November 2018; Landing) InSight NASA – (video/01:39; 1 December 2018; Wind Sounds) InSight NASA – (video/02:48; 19 July 2019; MarsQuakes) Mars Weather: Perseverance*Curiosity*InSight Discovery Program Geology of Mars Landers (spacecraft) Missions to Mars NASA space probes Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets Space probes launched in 2018 Soft landings on Mars 2018 on Mars Spacecraft decommissioned in 2022