Scooby Doo

See also: Scooby-Doo

English

Etymology

The rock, named after the fictional dog, is one among the unofficial names applied by the team behind Nasa’s first rover, Sojourner, in the late 1990s, others using cartoon character names as identifiers including “Yogi Rock” and “Casper”.[1]

Proper noun

Scooby Doo

  1. Alternative form of Scooby-Doo.
  2. A rock on Mars, analyzed by Mars Pathfinder.

References
  1. Team Lounge (2023 June 16) “How craters and hills on Mars are named”, in Mint‎, archived from the original on 2023-10-02.
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