As #CountdownToMars trends, Twitter photoshops users into spacesuits

Twitter also decided to join in the fun and give people new profile pictures to celebrate NASA's latest and most ambitious mission to Mars.

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Celebrating the special mission, Twitter has been creating new profile pics for Martian enthusiasts photoshopping their photos in space suits ready to be transported. (Source: @Twitter, @NASAPersevere)

NASA’s third and final mission to Mars with the Perseverance rover to hunt for life on the planet is set to launch Thursday, and Twitter is customising a special look for all its users who are ready to be transported to the red planet.

The Perseverance rover will include 10.9 million names of those who registered earlier, but NASA is taking reservations to send names on its next flight to Mars.

NASA had earlier launched a “Send Your Name to Mars” campaign inviting people around the world to submit their names to sent with the agency’s next rover to Mars and received applications from over 10 million people. These names have been stencilled with an electron beam onto three fingernail-sized silicon chips, along with the essays of the 155 finalists in NASA’s “Name the Rover” contest.

NOW BOARDING: I’m ready to fly; are you? Grab your boarding pass and let’s go. #CountdownToMars

Get your boarding pass: https://t.co/6xyix6gsOM

New flyer? Send your name on a future mission: https://t.co/i1GsSnsFWf pic.twitter.com/GZkMljSB7Q

— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) July 29, 2020

Twitter also decided to join in the fun and give people new profile pictures to celebrate the ambitious mission. The official account of Twitter tweeted: “Like for liftoff!” and had a surprise for those doing it. NASA also had some praise for the initiative.

We love it to Mars and back, Twitter. #CountdownToMars

— NASA (@NASA) July 29, 2020

Twitter also changed the profile picture on its official account and updated its cover photo as an ode to the mission. “Who wants to be transported off this planet?” the handle tweeted.

Who wants to be transported off this planet?

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

For those who replied, Twitter photoshopped their faces into photos of astronauts.

Sing us to the sky pic.twitter.com/l0rGuKALwh

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

Pack your bags, we leave tomorrow #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/sLRz2oZs6H

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

We made you this vision board #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/8ihZ8B4AW2

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

Not sure about the seaside, but Mars checks most of those boxes pic.twitter.com/mrvrtdUCVU

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

errrm done pic.twitter.com/ne4Q4jtjJ9

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

You’re in, first mission: change profile pic.twitter.com/dG54Ja8UdZ

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

Ready for space with that vocab #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/tIF58923Rr

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

A brisk -81 degrees pic.twitter.com/tG2beEwXM1

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

weeeeeeeee #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/jPLwEXzZcx

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

as loud as you want, there’s literally no one else on Mars…maybe? pic.twitter.com/GX2rdHv4D0

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

Change your profile pic on the way out pic.twitter.com/TIx7vxhVj9

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

Shoot for the moon, land in Mars pic.twitter.com/eOjEK7vRGI

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

we saved you a seat and made you a new profile pic let’s goooooo pic.twitter.com/J80eCjBjEF

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

let us know if there's… life on Mars pic.twitter.com/GgWN4L1HN6

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 30, 2020

you can sleep on the flight pic.twitter.com/aNEpn2WMMg

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 30, 2020

You're welcome. Goodbye. #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/vD36jKMinO

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 30, 2020

get meow of here #CountdownToMars pic.twitter.com/lHnybxFc6U

— Twitter (@Twitter) July 29, 2020

The rover called Perseverance is NASA’s brawniest and brainiest Martian rover yet. It sports the latest landing tech, plus the most cameras and microphones ever assembled to capture the sights and sounds of Mars. Its super-sanitized sample return tubes — for rocks that could hold evidence of past Martian life — are the cleanest items ever bound for space.

Once on the surface, Perseverance will scrounge for evidence of past microscopic life in an ancient lakebed, and gather the most promising rock samples for future pickup. NASA is teaming up with the European Space Agency to return the samples to Earth around 2031.