Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust storm only to spit out a single fuzzy gray picture before dying. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-nasa-rover-difficult-martian-touchdown.html…
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Tomorrow is New Year’s Day on Mars
Mars Year 36 begins on February 7, 2021. If you’re looking for a reason to celebrate, here’s to a Happy New Year … on Mars. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/mars-calendar-years-began-in-earth-year-1955…
Sahara’s ‘Godzilla’ dust storm may have been triggered by warming in the Arctic
Warmer-than-average conditions and declining sea ice in the Arctic may be linked to the Sahara Desert’s biggest dust storm in recorded history. Source: https://www.livescience.com/godzilla-dust-cloud.html