Congratulations on "Curiosity"

Our suburban burg of Lenexa, KS, is celebrating that local sixth-grader Clara Ma won the NASA essay contest to name the newest Mars Rover. The name is "Curiosity."

In her essay, Clara wrote that curiosity is “an everlasting flame that burns in everyone’s mind.”

“We have discovered so much about the world, but still so little,” she wrote. “We will never know everything there is to know, but with burning curiosity, we have learned so much.”

It's great to see writing skills highlighted in a national contest of this prominence. Clara will get to sign her name to the actual rover vehicle to be launched in 2011. Congratulations to Clara, her family and teachers at Sunflower Elementary School.