Octavia E. Butler Landing

On March 5, 2021, NASA named the site for the American science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler, who died on February 24, 2006.

From a study of the delta and channels, it was concluded that the lake inside the crater probably formed during a period in which there was continual surface runoff.

[5] Since it is believed that the lake was long-lived, life may have developed in the crater; the delta may have required a period of one to ten million years to form.

[6] Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an African American science fiction author who published a number of novel series between 1976 and 1998.

She was born in and grew up in Pasadena, California, the location of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Perseverance rover project.

The Mars Perseverance rover landed at the Octavia E. Butler Landing site in Jezero Crater.
The writer Octavia E. Butler at a book signing in 2005
The Ingenuity helicopter views the Perseverance rover (left) about 85 m (279 ft) away from 5.0 m (16.4 ft) in the air (April 25, 2021)
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