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Spring Season In Toronto
Clover sprouts are grown for preparation of spring season planting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Mining Bee
Dunning's mining bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 04, 2025. Dunning's mining bees are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Kathmandu
Nepali farmers work on the farm on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 3, 2025. (Photo by Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Kathmandu
A Nepali farmer works on the farm on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 3, 2025. (Photo by Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Kathmandu
Nepali farmers work on the farm on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 3, 2025. (Photo by Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Miner Bee
Dunning's miner bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2025. Dunning's mining bees (Dunning's miner bees) are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Miner Bee
Dunning's miner bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2025. Dunning's mining bees (Dunning's miner bees) are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Miner Bee
Dunning's miner bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2025. Dunning's mining bees (Dunning's miner bees) are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Miner Bee
Dunning's miner bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2025. Dunning's mining bees (Dunning's miner bees) are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Miner Bee
Dunning's miner bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2025. Dunning's mining bees (Dunning's miner bees) are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Dunning's Miner Bee
Dunning's miner bee (Andrena dunningi) is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on April 23, 2025. Dunning's mining bees (Dunning's miner bees) are active during the spring season and nest in gardens with loose earth, creating small tunnels in the soil. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto) -
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Flax Harvest In Egypt
Farmers gather to harvest flax during the Egyptian flax harvest season, which lasts throughout April with slight variations in dates between governorates, in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Ahmed Gamal/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Kashmir
A Kashmiri farmer works in a vegetable field next to Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 11, 2025. (Photo by Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
EDMONTON, CANADA – MARCH 22:
A Caterpillar Vibratory Soil Compactor is stored in the yard of a supplier company in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on March 22, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Daily Life In Edmonton
EDMONTON, CANADA – MARCH 22:
A Caterpillar CS54B Vibratory Soil Compactor is stored in the yard of a supplier company in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on March 22, 2025. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto) -
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Agricultural Management
Farmers work in a field in Zaozhuang, China, on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto) -
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Agricultural Management
Farmers work in a field in Zaozhuang, China, on March 20, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto) -
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'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists.
On 23 December, its congress voted to overturn the ban on metals mining, a move championed by the hardline president, Nayib Bukele, who is prioritising economic growth over environmental concerns.
A polluted river in Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador on December 5th, 2024.
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'Live sick or flee': pollution fears for El Salvador's rivers as mining ban lifted
The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists.
On 23 December, its congress voted to overturn the ban on metals mining, a move championed by the hardline president, Nayib Bukele, who is prioritising economic growth over environmental concerns.
The river in Santa Rosa de Lima, with runoff from a mine on December 5th, 2024.
Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Dayana and Tatiana Blanco members of the Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Team Uru Uru - a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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'We empower ourselves': the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem.
Fed up with the ever-increasing pollution, the sisters Tatiana and Dayana Blanco and other young women formed the Uru Uru Team in 2019.
The first step was to clean the water. Their forebears used totora and so they decided to do the same. As well as being used to build floating platforms and houses, totora is important for treating sewage and mining wastewater as it traps minerals in its roots, leaves and stems.
Dayana Blanco founder of Team Uru Uru looking at native plants called totora (Schoenoplectus californicus Ð a bulrush that grows in lakes and marshes in the Americas). - Team Uru Uru is a group of young indigenous women who came together to clean up Lago Uru Uru [Lake Uru Uru], Bolivia. Mining and plastic waste is dumped there. The waters are contaminated but the women create rafts out of plastic waste and plant totoro on them to clean the water.
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How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.
The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.
In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.
Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, walks through Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.
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How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok's plastic pollution
Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.
The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.
In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.
Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.
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How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
Desperate to restore the Chao Praya River to a pristine state, an abbot in the Thai capital began recycling in his temple. Now he has a floating ally in his efforts to clean up the river.
The Chao Phraya River is the largest waterway flowing through central Thailand.
In Bangkok, it is an artery for a network of water buses, ferries and wooden long-tail boats. But it's not just carrying people. According to research by the Rotterdam-based non-profit organisation Ocean Cleanup, the Chao Praya River carries 4,000 tonnes of plastic waste to the sea every year.
Seven Clean Seas founder, Tom Peacock-Nazil (black shirt), and Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony on The HIPPO project on the day of its launch on the Chao Phraya River next to Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation.
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Kakhovka reservoir 1 year after dam breach
ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, UKRAINE - JUNE 5, 2024 - A weed grows in the cracked soil at the bottom of the former Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnipro River that went dry after Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam in Kherson region on June 6, 2023, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine. (TARASOV/Ukrinform / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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Kakhovka reservoir 1 year after dam breach
ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, UKRAINE - JUNE 5, 2024 - A plant and shells are pictured at the bottom of the former Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnipro River that went dry after Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam in Kherson region on June 6, 2023, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine. (TARASOV/Ukrinform / Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
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US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample being collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
The rover used its abrasion bit to grind away the surface of the rock, cameras showed interesting and diverse textures.
It also spotted silica and carbonate, minerals that scientists know have the highest potential to preserve signs of ancient life on Earth.
Sceintists wonder if it might have preserved signs of ancient martian life
Picture supplied by Ferrari
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
Ferrari Press Agency
Mars 1
Ref 15767
16/04/2024
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA - JPL CALTECH
US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample being collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
The rover used its abrasion bit to grind away the surface of the rock, cameras showed interesting and diverse textures.
It also spotted silica and carbonate, minerals that scientists know have the highest potential to preserve signs of ancient life on Earth.
Sceintists wonder if it might have preserved signs of ancient martian life
Picture supplied by Ferrari
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
Ferrari Press Agency
Mars 1
Ref 15767
16/04/2024
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA - JPL CALTECH
US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample being collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
The rover used its abrasion bit to grind away the surface of the rock, cameras showed interesting and diverse textures.
It also spotted silica and carbonate, minerals that scientists know have the highest potential to preserve signs of ancient life on Earth.
Sceintists wonder if it might have preserved signs of ancient martian life
Picture supplied by Ferrari
(FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS) -
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
Ferrari Press Agency
Mars 1
Ref 15767
16/04/2024
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA - JPL CALTECH
US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample being collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
The rover used its abrasion bit to grind away the surface of the rock, cameras showed interesting and diverse textures.
It also spotted silica and carbonate, minerals that scientists know have the highest potential to preserve signs of ancient life on Earth.
Sceintists wonder if it might have preserved signs of ancient martian life
Picture supplied by Ferrari
(FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS) -
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
Ferrari Press Agency
Mars 1
Ref 15767
16/04/2024
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA - JPL CALTECH
US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
Picture supplied by Ferrari
(FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS) -
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
Ferrari Press Agency
Mars 1
Ref 15767
16/04/2024
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA - JPL CALTECH
US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
Picture supplied by Ferrari
(FOTO: DUKAS/FERRARI PRESS) -
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NASA plea for help in getting Martian soil and rock samples back to Earth
Ferrari Press Agency
Mars 1
Ref 15767
16/04/2024
See Ferrari text
Pictures must credit: NASA - JPL CALTECH
US space agency NASA is calling on companies to come up with ideas for returning soil and rocks samples from Mars and to Earth.
The space agency’s Mars Sample Return mission requires the collection of samples gathered by the Perseverance rover for a return trip.
It had its own programme under development with a mission date set for 2040.
But now it wants proposals for a less complex mission that would lower costs using already available technology and bring back the samples years earlier.
NASA associate administrator Nicky Fox said the change was due to budget cutbacks for the agency.
Fox added: “We are looking at out-of-the-box possibilities that could return the samples earlier and at a lower cost.
OPS: The 24th Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover taken from a region of Jezero Crater that is especially rich in carbonate, a mineral linked to habitability.
Picture supplied by Ferrari
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World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts.
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists.
Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants.
Pictured; Dr Jackie Stroud.
February 2024. London, UK.
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World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts.
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists.
Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants.
Pictured; Dr Jackie Stroud.
February 2024. London, UK.
Graeme Robertson / Guardian / eyevine
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World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts.
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists.
Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants.
Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams
February 2024. London, UK.
Graeme Robertson / Guardian / eyevine
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World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts.
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists.
Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants.
Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams.
February 2024. London, UK.
Graeme Robertson / Guardian / eyevine
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World faces 'deathly silence' of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts.
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists.
Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants.
Pictured; Dr Kim Hammond- Cossack
February 2024. London, UK.
Graeme Robertson / Guardian / eyevine
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