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NASA Releases First Video and Audio of Mars Landing

NASA Releases First Video and Audio of Mars Landing

U..S space agency NASA has released a video and the first ever audio clip from Mars, a faint wind sound captured by the Perseverance rover. Several images of the landing were released earlier, but it took days for the video signal to be relayed to Earth. The 3 minute 25 second video clip released on […]

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    Mars Breakthrough: Water Discovered Beneath Surface

    Mars Breakthrough: Water Discovered Beneath Surface

    Scientists have found evidence that liquid water exists on Mars, raising questions about the possibility of life on our neighboring planet. The discovery, announced Wednesday, was made using the MARSIS radar instrument onboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft. The researchers found a 12-mile-wide body of water buried under layers of ice and […]

    World’s Largest Chocolate Maker Pledges $1 Billion to Fight Climate Change

    World’s Largest Chocolate Maker Pledges $1 Billion to Fight Climate Change

    Mars Inc., the candy giant and maker of M&Ms, Skittles and Twix, announced it is spending $1 billion on its Sustainable in a Generation initiative to fight climate change. According to Fortune, the $35 billion chocolate company already has wind farms in Texas and Scotland that power its U.S. and UK operations. Under the new […]

    Bill Maher to Donald Trump: It’s Time to Make Earth Great Again

    Bill Maher to Donald Trump: It’s Time to Make Earth Great Again

    Bill Maher is sick of billionaires’ obsession with Mars, more like “Mars-a-Lago,” he said. In a new animation produced by ATTN:, the popular talk show host of Real Time, discusses the perils of our planet, including how “climate change is killing us.” He talks about Trump’s new budget proposal, which slashes funding for the U.S. […]

    Mars, Nestlé Commit to Clean Up Pet Food Supply Chains

    Mars, Nestlé Commit to Clean Up Pet Food Supply Chains

    By Perry Wheeler Following global pressure on pet food companies, industry giants Mars and Nestlé have announced that they will take steps to ensure their pet food supply chains are free of human rights abuses and illegally caught seafood. Their commitments to act on transshipping at sea increase the need for global seafood giant Thai […]

    Elon Musk Reveals How He’s Going to Take Us to Mars

    Elon Musk Reveals How He’s Going to Take Us to Mars

    It’s no secret that Elon Musk wants to take humans to Mars by 2025, but now, for the first time, he will explain how he plans to do it. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and chairman of SolarCity is scheduled to speak before the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, today at 2:30 p.m. […]