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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP 鈥?With just a day to go, NASAs InSight spacecraft aimed for a bulls-eye touchdown on Mars, zooming in like an arrow with no turning back.InSights journey of six months and 300 million miles 482 million kilometers comes to a precarious grand finale Monday afternoon.The robotic geologist 鈥?designed to explore Mars insides, surface to core 鈥?must go from 12,300 mph 19,800 kph to ze
stanley website ro in six minutes flat as it pierces the Martian atmosphere, pops out a parachute, fires its descent engines and, hopefully, lands on three legs.It is NASAs first聽attempt聽to land on Mars in six years, and all those involved are understandably anxious.NASAs top science mission official, Thomas Zurbuchen, confided Sunday that his stomach is already churning. The hardest thing is sitting on his hands and doing nothing, he said, except hoping and praying everything goes perfectly for InSight. Landing on Mars is one of the hardest single jobs that people have to do in planetary ex
stanley uk ploration, noted InSights lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt. Its such a difficult thing, its such a dangerous thing that theres always a fairly
stanley cup uncomfortably large chance that something could go wrong. Earths success rate at Mars is 40 percent, counting every attempted flyby, orbital flight and landing by the U.S., Russia and other countries dating all the way back to 1960.But the U.S. has pulled off seven successful Mars landings in the past four decades. With only one failed touchdown, its an enviable Jedp Turkey summons US diplomat over a Twitter like
REUTERS/Orhan QeremanSmoke rises from Syria Kurdish-controlled northeast city of Qamishli, Syria October 5, 2023.By Idrees Ali and Huseyin Hayatsever11:06 JST,ensp;October 6, 2023WASHINGTON/ANKARA, Oct 5 Reuters The United States on Thursday shot down an armed Turkish drone that was operating near its troops in Syria, the Pentagon said, the first time Washington has brought down an aircraft of NATO ally Turkey.A Turkish defense ministry official said the drone that was shot down did not belong to the Turkish armed forces, but did not say whose property it was.Turkey National Intelligence Agency carried out strikes in Syria against Kurdish militant targets after a bomb attack in
kubki stanley Ankara last weekend, a Turkish security source said on Thursday.On Thursday night, Turkish military air strikes d
stanley thermos estroyed 30 Kurdish militant targets in northern Syria, including an oil well, a storage facility and shelters, and neutralized many militants, the Turkish defense ministry said.Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder said Turkish drones had been seen carrying out airstrikes in Hasakah, Syria, on Thursday morning about 1 km away from U.S. troops. A few hours later a Turkish drone came within less than a half a kilometer 0.3 miles of U.S. troops and was deemed a threat and shot down by F-16 aircraft.We have no indicatio
stanley polska n that the Turkey was intentionally targeting U.S. forces, Ryder told reporters.Hasakah is in northeastern Syria
