Disney World Teams Up With NASA to Update Mission: SPACE Courtyard With NEW ‘Perseverance’ Mars Rover Tracks

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Disney World has announced that it has teamed up with NASA to create new Mars rover tracks for the Mission: SPACE courtyard (Planetary Plaza) at EPCOT.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory provided images captured by the Perseverance Mars rover as reference for Disney’s artisans, a 3D print file to recreate sample tubes used on Mars, and loaned a prototype wheel of the Perseverance rover to create read marks identical to those currently on Mars.

Previously, tracks from the Spirit and Opportunity rovers could be found in the plaza.

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