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About 4PM Eastern time the 420 seconds of terror by Nasa control will be over one way or another. There is a 50 percent success rate of landings on Mars and tis coordinated 3 nation endeavor UAE, China, and Nasa will Play out as “Persy”” comes from orbit speed to touchdown by an ancient lake.
China, UAE, and the US are all landing probes on the Red planet this week The UAE beat China to go into orbit on the 9th and at this writing all three landers are in orbit about Mars. The UAE probe is named Hope, China calls theirs Tianwen 1, The US handle is perseverance .
Mars coming back…
One of the goals of the mission is to harvest rocks to be available for a future mission to return to earth with them. Chemical content is valuable to research the possibility of a different atmosphere over time.
Lava tubes…
There is an interest in finding lava tubes on Mars. The ones on earth are made when lava flows harden on the outside leaving a tube like place. The tubes may contain ice protected from the sun and lack of atmosphere.
The pandemic started in 2019 with reports coming out of China about an outbreak in a large manufacturing city. The city had wet wildlife markets as well as a pollution base that made it popular to wear face masks. There is no substance to rumors of the virus being made in a lab.
The virus acts like a cold however the infection goes for the lower respiratory system and can result in long painful treatment including ventilators and induced comas.
The death rate varies from place to place but it has a pension to overwhelm hospital and civic resources.
There is a wide expectation of vaccines to deal with this this new virus by 2021. Safety, effectiveness, distribution, and antibody resilience are issues.
Prevention can be as simple as that for common cold and many people do not have severe cases.
The red planet is visible to the naked eye at night now, it will be closest to the earth since 2003 tonight, July 31st 2018.
On July 30-31, 2018, Mars and Earth are closer than since their historically close approach in 2003. Mars was closer in 2003 than in some 60,000 years, and it’s now only slightly farther from Earth now than then. It’s about 35.78 million miles (57.59 million km) away at its closest on July 31 at 08:00 UTC. That time places Mars’ closest approach before sunrise on July 31 for North American time zones – Earth sky news
Look to the right and down a little from the waning moon tonight. The red dot is visible, that is Mars from Merritt BC. Ca.
On this Day: July 31st 2012
Michael Phelps sets new record for most Olympic medals in one game.
Time goes ahead an hour at 2 AM on Sunday March 11th 2018. Daylight savings time returns to the clocks of British Columbia and will stay ahead until standard time returns November 4rth 2018.
On this Day: March 9th 1974
The Mars 7 flyby fails and misses Mars with lander.
February saw the Mars rover Opportunity reach its 5000th day of operation. It was originally planned to have 90 sol or Martian days. A solar day on Mars is 24 hours and a little under 40 minutes.
We hope this information does something for your sol because:
The rover is investigating a channel called Perseverance Valley, which descends the inboard slope of the western rim of Endeavour Crater. Ray Arvidson of Washington University in St. Louis is Opportunity Deputy Principal Investigator. source: Earth Sky News.
On this Day: February 23rd 1987
Supernova 1987a is observed in the Magellan cloud.