420 articles from THURSDAY 18.2.2021
What Perseverance, NASA’s New Mars Rover, Will Be Doing in its Years on the Red Planet
There was plenty of reason to celebrate when the Perseverance rover successfully touched down in Mars’s Jezero Crater this afternoon. But in some ways, the rover showed up too late—3.5 billion years too late, in fact.
Long ago, in an earlier epoch, as studies of Mars have shown, Jezero Crater was Jezero Lake, a 45 km (28 mi.) depression in the northern Martian hemisphere, fed with...
Michelin to ship tires by sail in effort to reduce emissions
French multinational Michelin Tire has signed up to ship some of the tires it makes in Nova Scotia across the Atlantic to France on a cargo vessel powered mainly by...
Nasa mission control erupts as Perseverance rover successfully lands on Mars – video
Nasa's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars' Jezero Crater to search for ancient microbial life after a journey of almost seven months from Earth, beaming back an image of the surface of the red planetMars rover landing: Nasa's Perseverance safely touches down in search of life Continue...