(CNN) NASA is naming landmarks and geological features on Mars in the Navajo language.
The Perseverance rover's team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, has been naming features of scientific interest with words in the language, according to NASA.
And it includes a rock named "Máaz," the Navajo word for "Mars.".
And Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer made a list of words in the Navajo language available to the rover's team to do so, according to a NASA press release.
"We hope that having our language used in the Perseverance mission will inspire more of our young Navajo people to understand the importance and the significance of learning our language.
Perseverance had to be "taught" the language so it could recognize landmarks that have been labeled in Navajo, NASA said.
The accent marks used in the English alphabet to convey the unique intonation of the Navajo language cannot be read by the computer languages Perseverance uses. »