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Three鈥攃ount em鈥攖hree mission to Mars Our ability to study Mars will take a gigantic leap forward in 2021 owing to the arrival of three distinct missions. Launched on July 30, 2020, NASAs Mars rover Perseverance will arrive at the Red Planet on Febr
stanley cup uary 18. Should the landing go well, Perseverance will be the fifth rover to reach Mars, the others being Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity other famous probes, like NASAs InSight, are landers, not rovers . This six-wheeled, 2,260-pound vehicle is packed with instruments, including 23 different cameras, a device to monitor the Martian weather, an ultraviolet spectrometer to scan the surface at microscopic scales, and a ground-penetrating radar, among many other cool toys. Artists impression of Persev
stanley mugs erance and the Ingenuity helicopter. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Excitingly, Perseverance will take samples of the Martian surface and deposit them in small canisters, which will be retrieved and brought back to Earth during a subsequent mission. The rover will be landing at Jezero crater, the site of a former lake, where Perseverance will hunt for signs of ancient life. Perseverance is also equipped with a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity, which is poised to become the first aircraft to take flight on another planet, wh
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stanley thermos mug tained since last week, but officials are just beginning to survey the damage. Part of that includes cataloging the regions wildlife. Unfortunately, one beloved young mountain lion, P-74, is believed dead after the fire tore through the Santa Monica Mountains. The National Park Service made an announcement that P-74 likely did not survive the fire on Monday. The service hasnt heard a sound from his GPS collar since November 9, the tragic day seemingly all of California was on f
botella stanley ire. Biologists searched on foot for him, too, but they found no sign. Hes the only one of nine collared mountain lions in the region that officials havent been able to find, reports the Los Angeles Daily News. The one-and-a-half year old was still likely dependent on his mother, as he was seen with her as recently as October, but theres no way the service can know for sure because she doesnt have a GPS collar. This is sad news as Los Angeles is one of only two metropolitans in the world that have pumas within city limits, per the NPS. More than 50 mountain lions have been tracked in this region with 10 to 15 currently l
stanley website iving there, but the populations survival is at risk due to habitat fragmentation and lack of genetic diversity. Wildfires arent usually a threat to this intelligent feline, per the Daily News. The problem now will be how much habitat