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China releases rover's first photo after mars landing Moneycontrol 2 hours ago © Faizan Javed China releases rover's first photo after mars landing Four days after landing a spacecraft on Mars, China’s space agency released its first photographs from the red planet on Wednesday, announcing that the mission was going as planned. The four-day wait for the images — one in color, one in black and white, as well as a pair of small video clips — had prompted speculation that something might have gone wrong with the landing on Saturday. When China’s space agency issued a statement in re...

Rosemary Rimkus This is the story of the three statues that appeared at St. Michael’s Parish Cemetery about 17 years ago. When the expansion of St. Michael Parish cemetery was imminent in 2004, John R. Nelson, then a Bolton resident, came to the rescue. Upon the untimely death of his wife, Judith, in 2004, her burial was in the Hudson cemetery, and Nelson and his sons helped to plan and realize the cemetery expansion. Nelson, 77, who died at his home in Leland, North Carolina, on Feb. 9, 2021, was buried next to his wife on Feb. 19, 2021, following his funeral Mass at St. Michael Church. Ne...

Many CPUs have been used in space craft, space stations and other such probes. Such CPUs must be highly reliable, and very durable. The temperatures in space, even with heaters, can vary widely. The radiation that a system is exposed too can be immense. So when designing one of these systems designers don't always use the latest and greatest microprocessor. They use a chip that has been tried and tested. That they KNOW will work. A CPU for use in space must first be MIL-STD-883 (usually Class M or S, gro...