When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover launched last July, it included a tracking code that you’ll soon be able to log. With the rover scheduled to land in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, we wanted to learn more about the first-ever interplanetary trackable. Longtime geocacher Dr. Francis McCubbin (mikbalt) is a member of NASA’s Mars 2020 SHERLOC instrument team who played a big role in this exciting geocaching milestone!
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End of the road: A recap of Memory Lane
With the close of 2020 came the end of Memory Lane, the souvenir challenge celebrating 20 years of geocaching. If there’s anything geocaching can teach us, it is to expect the unexpected, and 2020 sure fits that. Despite a year of change, geocachers around the world were still able to safely get outside and explore the world around them. Let’s take a look back at some fun numbers from Memory Lane!
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A neat initiative for the environment
Join geocachers around the world to improve the outdoors, celebrate 20 years of geocaching, and log a rare cache type in 2021-22! Today, we’re thrilled to announce GC8NEAT Let’s improve the outdoors – Locationless Cache. This HQ-owned cache provides a unique opportunity to contribute to environmental improvement and protection efforts in a way that’s most meaningful and safe for you.
2021 Geocaching HQ souvenir moments
Planning is just one of the many skills one builds as a geocacher and we wouldn’t want you to be out of practice right when we enter a new year! So, we’re outlining the confirmed Geocaching HQ souvenir moments for the remainder of the year! We’ve still got a few souvenir surprises in store though, but for those, you’ll just have to wait and see, but you may not have to wait very long!
Are your calendars ready? The confirmed souvenir moments for 2021 are:
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2020 in the rearview ✌…we mean, year in review.
What a year it has been! For many of us, geocaching may have been the one thing that didn’t change in a year full of uncertainty. Sure, we had our fair share of postponed plans (lookin’ at you 20th Anniversary Celebration) and our times of lockdown leaving us to dream of future cache outings. But always ready and waiting for our return are the three million-plus geocaches, the hundreds of thousands of cache owners, the hundreds of community volunteers, and of course, geocachers all over the world. In a year full of disruption, we sure came together.
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