NASA Releases New Video, Audio From Rover's Arrival On Mars
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In today's top news, NASA reveals video footage and audio from the Perseverance rover, Spotify announces plans to launch a new subscription tier for high-fidelity audio and Elon Musk says Starlink internet speeds will double in 2021.
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Videographic illustrating the Perseverance mission to Mars. The US space agency NASA on Monday released the first audio from Mars, a faint crackling recording of a gust of wind captured by the Perseverance rover. VIDEOGRAPHIC
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NASA releases jaw-dropping video and audio from Mars, with an assist from AWS
For the first time ever, NASA has captured video of a rover landing on the surface of Mars, plus audio of the wind whistling past it after the landing — and Amazon Web Services is playing a key role in making all those gigabytes of goodness available to the world. The stars of the show are NASA’s Perseverance rover and the hundreds of scientists and engineers supporting the mission to Mars at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other institutions around the world. But the fact that thousands of images are being pumped out via NASA’s website with only a few… Read More
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In Brazil, an indigenous woman joins Bolsonaro in fight for mining
Irisnaide Silva is female, Brazilian and indigenous. They kept digging even after Brazil in 2005 marked the land as indigenous territory, a measure that prohibited mining despite protests from her family and other wildcatters in her Macuxi tribe. Now, Silva has the ear of none other than Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president.
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