La Nasa a brillamment réussi jeudi à poser sur Mars son rover Perseverance, le cinquième véhicule seulement à avoir réussi le voyage sans encombre vers la planète rouge.
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Over its mission time of one Mars year (which translates to about 687 Earth days), the Perseverance NASA s ninth mission to land on Mars will collect rock and soil samples in the hopes of finding evidence of ancient life on Earth s closest neighboring planet. To quote Carl Sagan, Gentry Lee, of NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement, If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the discovery that life existed elsewhere in the universe would certainly be extraordinary.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said year-round schooling is one of the options on the table to help students who have fallen behind with at-home learning.
Northam said discussions are already underway, and if the year-round school is approved, it may start next year. He said state education officials are also looking at the possibility of adding school days to the summer.
“Our children have suffered from COVID-19 as have our families,” Northam said Wednesday.
As vaccines become more available, giving many hope that the end of the pandemic is coming soon, schools are trying to prepare for the return of students to physical classrooms. One of the concerns educators have is how to help students that struggled during the at-home learning phase.