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I have this nasal issue where I’m supposed to use an antihistamine every day to keep my nasal passages from swelling and blocking. When this happens, I use it for four days, and they clear up. PICTURE: Diana Polekhina/Unsplash Can you guess what happens? After four days, since I can breathe, I forget to use the […]
Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April
Los Angeles, USReuters NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body. The US space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 1.8-kilogram solar-powered […]
Mars on Earth: Turkish lake may hold clues to ancient life on planet
Lake Salda, TurkeyReuters As NASA’s rover Perseverance explores the surface of Mars, scientists hunting for signs of ancient life on the distant planet are using data gathered on a mission much closer to home at a lake in south-west Turkey. NASA says the minerals and rock deposits at Salda are the nearest match on earth […]
Mars rover sends home movie of daredevil descent to landing on red planet
Los Angeles, USReuters NASA scientists on Monday unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies of last week’s’ daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation over the red planet and a rocket-powered hovercraft lowering the science lab on wheels to the surface. The footage was recorded on Thursday by a series of cameras mounted at different […]
NASA rover faces ‘seven minutes of terror’ before landing on Mars
Los Angeles, USReuters When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio alert as it streaks into the thin Martian atmosphere. By the time that signal reaches mission managers some 204 […]
THIS LIFE: MEANT TO RUN YOUR OWN RACE
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article first published on ASSIST News Service, looks at the importance of perseverance…