Talk:Endeavour (crater)

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In the infobox it says the crater is named after Endeavour, Saskatchewan and HM Bark Endeavour. Can we have a citation for this? Is it really named after a village of 118 people in Canada as well as HM Bark Endeavour? I find that rather odd. 86.138.46.255 (talk) 10:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Per the naming convention for craters visited by Opportunity, Endeavour crater was named after a "ship of exploration", so the Saskatchewan village is right out. However, there are two possible ships: the HM Bark Endeavour and the Space Shuttle Endeavour. I suspect a double play, especially given the examples of Eagle Crater and Beagle Crater. 169.232.144.91 (talk) 22:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The crater was officially named after Endeavour, Saskatchewan. [1][2] If you believe that the name is also intended to reference either Captain Cook's ship Endeavour or the Space Shuttle Endeavour, then you need to provide a reference for that. Mathew5000 (talk) 15:16, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of the name Endeavour

Here's a few links I came across (@MER-C:):

"Road Trip Gets Under Way" (Press release). NASA. 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2016-02-14. ‘a huge hole in the ground nicknamed "Endeavour Crater."’
"NASA's Mars Rover To Head Toward Bigger Crater" (Press release). NASA HQ/JPL. 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2016-02-14. “...the crater the rover team calls Endeavour...”
A.J.S. Rayl (2008-09-30). "Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Embarks on New Endeavour, Spirit Gets Back To Normal Schedule". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 2016-02-14. explains that the NASA team provisionally named the crater Endeavour and submitted it to the IAU: Squyres wanted to name it after a famous ship in exploration but IAU rules required that it be named for a town on Earth with population < 100,000
[3] message board forum quoting Stephen Squyres: “We are going to suggest the name Endeavour to the International Astronomical Union, because it both keeps with our current theme for naming craters at Meridiani, and it is consistent with IAU standards for naming martian craters -- Endeavour is also the name of a town in Saskatchewan. Anyway, until the IAU gives us their blessing for this one, it's important to treat the name as informal and provisional.”
"Martian Crater Named Endeavour". USGS Astrogeology Science Center. 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2016-02-14.
"Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Endeavour on Mars". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Retrieved 2016-02-14.

Mathew5000 (talk) 17:38, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for researching this, very interesting! Fotaun (talk) 14:11, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ETA

It would be nice to know how far the rover is from Endeavor and when it is now expected to get there. It has already been 23 months (the original estimate) since it started heading towards Endeavor and presumably still has a long way to go. --71.107.98.32 (talk) 18:33, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]