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Aye, he has only ever won the Champions League Cup with Barca, failed at Bayern and Spurs fucked him up this year and maybe City getting banned from Europe, Pep is getting itchy feet again. @Happy Blue, give us your thoughts buddy, do you think Pep will do a runner to Juve?

I just bloody knew you would come up with that remark.

Aye, like wee Kaiden, granddads busy on his laptop, I think I will raid the fridge.

May 20, 2019 NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field This still from an animation illustrates Jupiter's magnetic field at a single moment in time. The Great Blue Spot, an-invisible-to-the-eye concentration of magnetic field near the equator, stands out as a particularly strong feature. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard/Moore et al. Full image and caption NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an internal magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation. Juno determined the gas giant's secular variation is most likely driven by the planet's deep atmospheric winds. The discovery will help scientists further understand Jupiter's interior structure — including atmospheric dynamics — as well as changes in Earth's magnetic field. A paper on the discovery was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy. "Secular variation has been on the wish list of planetary scientists for decades," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "This discovery could only take place due to Juno's extremely accurate science instruments and the unique nature of Juno's orbit, which carries it low over the planet as it travels from pole to pole." Characterizing the magnetic field of a planet requires close-up measurements. Juno scientists compared data from NASA's past missions to Jupiter (Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and Ulysses) to a new model of Jupiter's magnetic field (called JRM09). The new model was based on data collected during Juno's first eight science passes of Jupiter using its magnetometer, an instrument capable of generating a detailed three-dimensional map of the magnetic field. This striking view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Full image and caption What scientists found is that from the first Jupiter magnetic field data provided by the Pioneer spacecraft through to the latest data provided by Juno, there were small but distinct changes to the field. "Finding something as minute as these changes in something so immense as Jupiter's magnetic field was a challenge," said Kimee Moore, a Juno scientist from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Having a baseline of close-up observations over four decades long provided us with just enough data to confirm that Jupiter's magnetic field does indeed change over time." Once the Juno team proved secular variation did occur, they sought to explain how such a change might come about. The operation of Jupiter's atmospheric (or zonal) winds best explained the changes in its magnetic field. These winds extend from the planet's surface to over 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers) deep, where the planet's interior begins changing from gas to highly conductive liquid metal. They are believed to shear the magnetic fields, stretching them and carrying them around the planet. Nowhere was Jupiter's secular variation as large as at the planet's Great Blue Spot, an intense patch of magnetic field near Jupiter's equator. The combination of the Great Blue Spot, with its strong localized magnetic fields, and strong zonal winds at this latitude result in the largest secular variations in the field on the Jovian world. "It is incredible that one narrow magnetic hot spot, the Great Blue Spot, could be responsible for almost all of Jupiter's secular variation, but the numbers bear it out," said Moore. "With this new understanding of magnetic fields, during future science passes we will begin to create a planetwide map of Jupiter's secular variation. It may also have applications for scientists studying Earth's magnetic field, which still contains many mysteries to be solved." NASA's JPL manages and operates the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency's Science Mission Directorate. The Italian Space Agency (ASI) contributed two instruments, a Ka-band frequency translator (KaT) and the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM). Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-finds-changes-in-jupiters-magnetic-field

@Stan you may like this. Seven places celebrating Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday The bicentenary of the births of both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert occur in 2019. These historic Royal events are being marked by several exhibitions and other activities as Val Baynton explains. Kensington Palace Buckingham Palace Osborne, Isle of Wight Houses of Parliament Victorian & Albert Museum Windsor Castle Frogmore House https://grouptravelorganiser.com/archives/seven-places-celebrating-victorias-200th-birthday

No, it's not mentioned, my wife is the one for Royalty and all them things and if there is ever any show about the late Princess Diana the wife will watch it or as I said, anything to do with Royalty, if we lived down South and the wife had a chance to go she would jump at it lol.

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama Joel K. Bourne, Jr. The schooner Clotilda—the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to America’s shores—has been discovered in a remote arm of Alabama’s Mobile River following an intensive yearlong search by marine archaeologists. "Descendants of the Clotilda survivors have dreamed of this discovery for generations," says Lisa Demetropoulos Jones, executive director of the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC) and the State Historic Preservation Officer. "We’re thrilled to announce that their dream has finally come true." The captives who arrived aboard Clotilda were the last of an estimated 389,000 Africans delivered into bondage in mainland America from the early 1600s to 1860. Thousands of vessels were involved in the transatlantic trade, but very few slave wrecks have ever been found. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a community near Mobile founded by Africans illegally transported to Alabama aboard the slave ship. Some of their descendants still live in the neighborhood. "The discovery of the Clotilda sheds new light on a lost chapter of American history," says Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, which supported the search. "This finding is also a critical piece of the story of Africatown, which was built by the resilient descendants of America’s last slave ship." Rare firsthand accounts left by the slaveholders as well as their victims offer a one-of-a-kind window into the Atlantic slave trade, says Sylviane Diouf, a noted historian of the African diaspora. "It’s the best documented story of a slave voyage in the Western Hemisphere," says Diouf, whose 2007 book, Dreams of Africa in Alabama, chronicles the Clotilda’s saga. "The captives were sketched, interviewed, even filmed," she says, referring to some who lived into the 20th century. "The person who organized the trip talked about it. The captain of the ship wrote about it. So we have the story from several perspectives. I haven’t seen anything of that sort anywhere else." One hundred and nine African captives survived the brutal, six-week passage from West Africa to Alabama in Clotilda’s cramped hold. Originally built to transport cargo, not people, the schooner was unique in design and dimensions—a fact that helped archaeologists identify the wreck.

All done!!!! WEEEEEEEEEE I could be off to Mars

With you on Young buddy, he should do a runner quick smart, I would not have even minded if he made young Luke Shaw as Captain. Pogba needs to pull his finger out of the back of his arse and start performing on a regular basis, he should be a leader on the pitch and urge the players on, if he can do that with this season coming up then he will be ok for me but saying all that I do think he will end up at Real and then we just move on, one player does not make a team.

Straws: UK government to bring in new controls on plastic By David ShukmanScience editor In a bid to limit ocean pollution, the UK government will introduce new controls on single-use plastic items next year. The measures cover plastic straws, plastic drinks stirrers and plastic cotton buds in England from April 2020. Only plastic drinks stirrers will be totally banned from sale - currently, 316 million are used a year. Environmental groups have praised the move but say the government needs to take far more decisive action. How will plastic straws be affected? The government press release announcing the new restrictions talks of "a ban on the supply of plastic straws" but in reality, the aim is instead to restrict their availability. Shops including supermarkets will not be allowed to sell the straws but they will on sale by registered pharmacies in stores and online. That's because disabled groups have highlighted how straws are essential for everyday life and that a total ban could lead to the risk of dehydration. According to the announcement, bars and restaurants will not be allowed to display plastic straws or automatically hand them out but they will be able to provide them if people ask. When asked who could request a straw, a spokesperson for the environment ministry Defra said: "Anyone can ask for a straw and be given one without needing to prove a disability - we've been working with disabled groups so that they don't feel stigmatised."s

May 16, 2019 Galaxy Blazes With New Stars Born From Close Encounter The irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a hit-and-run accident with a bypassing galaxy. Rather than destroying the galaxy, the chance encounter is spawning a new generation of stars, and presumably planets. The right side of the galaxy is ablaze with star formation, shown in the plethora of young blue stars and star-incubating pinkish nebulas. The left side, however, looks intact. It contains hints of the galaxy’s previous spiral structure, which, at one time, was undergoing normal galactic evolution. The larger culprit galaxy, NGC 4490, is off the bottom of the frame. The two galaxies sideswiped each other millions of years ago and are now 24,000 light-years apart. The gravitational tug-of-war between them created rippling patches of higher-density gas and dust within both galaxies. This activity triggered a flurry of star formation. This galaxy is a nearby example of the kind of cosmic bumper-car activity that was more common billions of years ago when the universe was smaller and galaxies were closer together. NGC 4485 lies 25 million light-years away in the northern constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). This new image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), provides further insight into the complexities of galaxy evolution. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. Text credit: Space Telescope Science Institute Image credit: NASA, ESA; acknowledgement: T. Roberts (Durham University, UK), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts) and the LEGUS Team, R. Tully (University of Hawaii) and R. Chandar (University of Toledo) Last Updated: May 16, 2019 Editor: Rob Garner https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/galaxy-blazes-with-new-stars-born-from-close-encounter

Ravens have emotional quirks similar to humans, study finds Mike Wehner Humans have very advanced brains — or at least we think that’s the case based on what we know about life from an admittedly small sample size of a single planet — but we’re not the only creatures on the planet that exhibits complex emotional traits. Ravens, which are known to be incredibly intelligent, are the subject of frequent study, and new research reveals that they have some of the same personality quirks that humans possess. The research, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on groups of ravens in a laboratory setting. A complex experiment was devised to determine whether the birds’ emotions could rub off on one another, and the results appear to show that they do. The experiment is rather complicated, so stick with me here: First, pairs of ravens were given the choice between two small boxes. One box contained cheese, which ravens enjoy, and the other box was empty. The birds rapidly figured out which box was the “right” one, and the researchers then threw in a wild card in the form of a third box. Observing how many birds picked the mysterious third box gave the researchers a baseline for how optimistic the birds were about selecting the unknown option. The bird pairs were then split up, and one of the birds was presented with two possible selections: dry dog food, which they enjoy, and carrots, which they tend to dislike. The partner bird was allowed to watch how the birds reacted to the choices but could not directly see what the choices actually were, forcing the birds to draw a conclusion based on how their partner had reacted. The three-box test was then run once again, and the scientists observed how they reacted. During the test, the Ravens who saw their partners become angry over their choice in the previous test were far more hesitant to dive into the unknown box, suggesting that the negative reaction of their partner birds had impacted them in a significant way. The birds whose partners acted normally in the prior test showed no change in their behaviour. This shift is known as emotional contagion, and it’s something that humans are known to exhibit as well. The moods of our peers can have a dramatic impact on our own emotions, and the same seems to be true of ravens as well. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/ravens-have-emotional-quirks-similar-to-humans-study-finds/ar-AABJotS

Ancient Egypt: Archaeologists Uncover Remains of Long-lost Temple Callum Paton Archaeologists working in Cairo have uncovered remains of ancient buildings and a haul of artefacts thousands of years old. Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement released Sunday that a joint German and Egyptian excavation team had recovered relics and the remnants of a temple and other structures at a site dating back to between the 6th and 2nd centuries B.C. The excavation area, known as Area 251 on Mutasim Street in Cairo’s al-Matareya neighbourhood, was found to contain remnants of a temple to Nakhtenbo I—a ruler from Egyptian antiquity—as well as royal statues believed to be far older. The statues date back to Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. That was the first dynastic period of Egypt’s New Kingdom when the ancient civilization reached its apotheosis. The era spanned from 1549 to 1292 B.C., making the statues at least 3,300 years old. The head of Egypt’s Ministry for Antiquities, Ayman Ashmawy, revealed that several other features, including carved limestone blocks and a structure from the Ptolemaic period (beginning in 305 B.C.), that housed ovens for making bread, were also recovered. The Ptolemaic period was ushered in following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and ended with the Roman conquest in 30 B.C. and the death of Cleopatra. Within the temple area recovered in Cairo, German archaeologists reported finding a number of basalt tablets bearing inscriptions and a limestone structure that may indicate the presence of an older temple at the site dating back to the era of King Merneptah. Merneptah, the fourth pharaoh of Egypt’s Nineteenth Dynasty, ruled for ten years, dying in 1203 B.C. according to historical records. On the southwestern side of the excavation site, the archaeologists uncovered a thick brick wall covered in a layer of white mortar. Within the wall, they found a number of engraved stones, one of which was made from quartz. Considered the most important of the engraved stones discovered at the site, the quartz artefact shows Pharaoh Amenhotep as a sphinx raising his hands upwards. In recent years, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has been working to publicize the ongoing archaeology work in the country in a bid to attract tourism. Following Egypt’s 2011 revolution and the extended period of instability that followed, tourist numbers to the North African nation have dwindled. ttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/ancient-egypt-archaeologists-uncover-remains-of-long-lost-temple/ar-AABJjM5

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Like humans, this dinosaur crawled before it walked Jason Bittel © Illustration by González As a hatchling, the dinosaur Mussaurus patagonicus walked on all fours. But as the dinosaur grew, its center of mass changed and it shifted to two-legged locomotion. It’s a special moment when a baby learns how to go from crawling on all fours to walking on two legs, especially considering how rare this transition is in the animal kingdom. Only a few other species are thought to make the shift from crawling to upright walking as they age—and they’re all dinosaurs. Now, researchers have added compelling new evidence for one member on that list: a sauropod named Mussaurus patagonicus. (Also see fossil footprints from sauropods that lived in what’s now Scotland) When Mussaurus hatched, it would have been small enough to fit cosily inside a human hand, earning it a genus name that means “mouse lizard.” But after just eight years of gobbling up ferns and other plants, the same creature would have weighed more than a ton. This dramatic explosion in body size and shape brought with it a shift in the way the animal moved, scientists argue in a new study published today in the journal Scientific Reports. A baby Mussaurus patagonicus was small enough to fit in human hands. Using a remarkable series of nearly complete fossils that depict three key stages of life, the scientists were able to create interactive 3-D models of the early Jurassic dinosaur and work out where its centre of body mass would have been as it aged. Early in life, the animal’s large head and neck would have tilted its body forward onto the support of well-developed forearms. But as its tail grew, the centre of gravity would have shifted to the pelvic region, drawing the animal upward into a stance that allowed for walking on two legs. Related Slideshow: The world's most valuable dinosaurs ever found (Provided by Lovemoney) “We don’t know if this pattern applied to all sauropods,” says study leader Alejandro Otero, a paleontologist at the La Plata Museum in Argentina. “But the fact that this [group of animals] shifted their movements in a way so similar to humans is fascinating.” Snapshots of prehistory One of the things that makes studying extinct animals so difficult is that scientists can usually only see a tiny snapshot of each creature’s life. Often, that snapshot does not include hatchlings or juveniles, which are smaller and less likely to fossilize. (Find out how fossil eggs are revealing more about dinosaur parenting styles.) Paleontologists have what's known as an ontogenetic series for Mussaurus patagonicus, a set of nearly complete fossils that depict three key stages of life, including this juvenile skull. “There are few dinosaurs for which we have a good series from eggs or babies to adults, and Mussaurus has become one of those, which opens up some exciting new questions not feasible 20 years ago,” says study coauthor John Hutchinson, a professor of evolutionary biomechanics at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London. It’s taken over half a century to assemble the set of fossils that informed the current study, for instance. Scientists call these ontogenetic series, and they are highly prized. “We typically think of each species of dinosaur represented by one monolithic entity, but like every other animal, they have a growth series that we usually just don't get a chance to see, since dinosaur fossils are so rare,” says Shaena Montanari, a paleontologist and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow who was not involved in the study. Dinosaurs did it first Mussaurus is just one branch on the dinosaur family tree that may have switched locomotion modes as the animals aged. “Several dinosaurs have been hypothesized to do it, including Maiasaura, Iguanodon, Psittacosaurus, Dryosaurus, and Massospondylus,” says Kimi Chapelle, a PhD candidate studying locomotion shifts in dinosaurs at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. What’s more, some species displayed shifts in the opposite direction, going from walking on two legs to walking on four, says Chapelle, who was not part of the new study. A propensity for switching things up is even reflected in dinosaur evolution. “Ancestral dinosaurs are bipedal, but quadrupedality evolved independently across two major lineages,” Chapelle says. That includes the Ornithischia branch, which produced many famous quadruped dinosaurs, such as Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and Ankylosaurus. (See a stunning ankylosaur fossil found by accident in a Canadian mine.) Despite all this shifting around among dinosaurs, the scientists had a really difficult time finding an example of such behaviour in living animals. “Humans ended up being the best and probably the only really well-known example,” says study coauthor Andrew Cuff, a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London. “It’s a really rare thing to see, which is why it’s so exciting to see it in the fossil record of this species.” https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/like-humans-this-dinosaur-crawled-before-it-walked/ar-AABF21l

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Archaeologists discover bizarre ‘Jars of the Dead’ hidden in Laos Mike Wehner © Provided by Penske Media Corporation VARIOUS Just like today, people who lived hundreds of years ago had rituals and traditions associated with death. Methods of burial or tributes to deceased individuals often vary greatly from one culture to the next, and archaeologists are learning more about one of the more mysterious ancient customs originating in present-day Laos. Researchers from the Australian National University recently discovered over a dozen new locations in Laos where thousand-year-old jars were once used in some kind of death ritual that remains poorly understood. The team documented the existence of over a hundred of the so-called “jars of the dead,” but the discovery ultimately creates more questions than it answers. © Provided by Penske Media Corporation Megalithic-Laos-jars-in-forest-ANU-920-x-518 Past research has suggested that the jars were used in some kind of end-of-life custom, though what role they may have played in burial or disposal of human remains is still unknown. “These new sites have really only been visited by the occasional tiger hunter,” Nicholas Skopal, a PhD student at the university who helped discover the jars, said in a statement. “Now we’ve rediscovered them, we’re hoping to build a clear picture about this culture and how it disposed of its dead.” It’s believed that the jars were constructed out of large single rocks, carved into their bowl shapes miles away and then brought to various remote forest locations where they were used and then lost for centuries before being found once more by scientists. Along with the jars, carved discs depicting various images were also found near the same locations, and the team believes those to be burial markers. The decorative sides of the stone discs were placed face-down, only adding to the mystery of whatever custom or tradition was being carried out. Explaining what went on in these locations will be difficult, but as more artefacts are discovered, archaeologists may be able to slowly piece together a long-lost ritual that is now lost to time. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/archaeologists-discover-bizarre-jars-of-the-dead-hidden-in-laos/ar-AABCe4Y

Just watched Kidnap (2017) on Netflix, not bad and I would give it a 7/10.

Something Appears to Have Ripped a Massive Hole in the Milky Way's Edge Hannah Osborne Something appears to have torn a hole in part of the Milky Way’s halo. The “dark substructure” was found via Gaia observations—a project set out to produce the most detailed 3D map of our galaxy—with Harvard scientist Ana Bonaca noticing a perturbation in a tidal stream. She presented her findings at the American Physical Society’s April meeting. As first reported by LiveScience, Bonaca was focusing on tidal streams produced by stars escaping from globular clusters—normally found at the edges of a galaxy. The stellar halo of the Milky Way is full of these tidal streams. If there is nothing to disturb them, the streams are almost uniform in terms of their density. However, Bonaca noticed there was a hole in one. “The on-sky morphology suggests a recent, close encounter with a massive and dense perturber,” an abstract to her work reported. What this “perturber” is, however, is unknown. "It's a dense bullet of something," Bonaca told LiveScience. Telescopes failed to find the source—so what could it be? The hole is enormous, so whatever made it must also have been. "It's much more massive than a star,” she told the website. “Something like a million times the mass of the sun. So there are just no stars of that mass. We can rule that out. And if it were a black hole, it would be a supermassive black hole of the kind we find at the centre of our own galaxy." The problem with this idea is that there are no signs of a supermassive black hole in the vicinity. At the moment, observations do not show any large luminous object (something made from ordinary matter, which reflects light) moving away from the hole. This led Bonaca to suggest the perturbation could have been made by dark matter. This is the mystery substance that makes up about 27 per cent of the universe. Scientists know it is there because of the gravitational force it exerts on normal matter—but because it is “dark” in that it does not reflect light, and so we cannot see what it is. “Observations permit a low-mass dark-matter subhalo as a plausible candidate,” Bonaca’s abstract says. This dense blob of dark matter could have smashed through the tidal stream—if this is what caused the hole—and would be an exciting find for scientists, as it would provide them the opportunity of studying this elusive substance. The discovery of a dark matter “bullet” would also fit with current predictions about what dark matter is like—research suggests it is “clumpy,” in that it is not smooth and evenly distributed around the universe. Identifying a clump of dark matter “opens up the possibility that detailed observations of streams could measure the mass spectrum of dark-matter substructures and even identify individual substructures,” her abstract concludes. However, she says this still does not rule out a luminous object. "It could be that it's a luminous object that went away somewhere, and it's hiding somewhere in the galaxy," she said. Bocana’s research is still in the early stages. She is yet to publish her findings in a peer-reviewed journal—however, LiveScience reports her presentation was welcomed by attendees. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/spotlight/something-appears-to-have-ripped-a-massive-hole-in-the-milky-ways-edge/ar-AABAly4?ocid=chromentp

Mars: The box seeking to answer the biggest question VIDEO Is it possible? Is there life on Mars? Ever since the Mariner 4 probe made the first successful visit to the Red Planet - a flyby in July 1965 - we've sent a succession of missions that have given us all sorts of fascinating information about Earth's near neighbour - but not the answer to the only question that really matters. So, take a look at the technology that may finally change the game. This is the Analytical Laboratory Drawer, or ALD - a sophisticated three-in-one box of instruments that will examine rock samples for the chemical fingerprints of biology. On Thursday, it was gently lifted by crane and lowered into the ExoMars "Rosalind Franklin" rover the six-wheeled buggy that will carry it across the Oxia plain of Mars in 2021. The 300kg robot, which is being developed jointly by the European and Russian space agencies, will have a drill that can dig up to 2m below the planet's dusty surface. The tailings pulled up by this tool will be handed through a door to the ALD, where the various mechanisms inside will then crush and prepare powders that can be dropped into small cups for analysis. It will be a forensic examination, looking at all aspects of the samples' composition. All previous rovers have skirted the big question. They've essentially only asked whether the conditions on Mars today or in the past would have been favourable to life - if ever it had existed. They haven't actually had the necessary equipment to truly detect biomarkers. Rosalind Franklin will be different. Its 54kg ALD has been built specifically to look for those complex organic molecules that have their origin in life processes. Thursday's integration was slow and deliberate, understandably: the ALD is in many ways the key element of the Rosalind Franklin mission. "It is wonderful to see the heart of the rover has now been installed," said Sue Horne, the head of space exploration at the UK Space Agency. "The Analytical Laboratory Drawer is the key location for Martian sample testing on the rover, allowing us to understand the geology and potentially to identify signatures of life of Mars. I can't wait to see what discoveries lie in store for this British-built rover." Engineers at Airbus UK are now working three shifts a day to get the rover finished. Although it doesn't look much like a vehicle at the moment, virtually all the components have now arrived at the Stevenage factory. They're sitting on shelves around the edge of the cleanroom in bags, waiting their turn in the assembly sequence. There are one or two outstanding items, however, including the rover's British "eyes". This is the camera system, or PanCam, which will sit atop a mast and guide the robot on its trail of investigation. "We've just held the delivery review board this week and PanCam should be coming to us in the next few days," said Chris Draper, the flight model operations manager at Airbus. "We know everything will go together; that's the beauty of systems engineering. Every single part of the rover has been modelled in 3D, and everyone works to interface control drawings. Assuming we all do that then we know the ALD, for example, will fit perfectly into the rover." The Stevenage team has a hard deadline of the beginning of August to get the finished Rosalind Franklin rover out the door. It has to go to the company's Toulouse facility for a series of tests that will ensure the design is robust enough to cope with the severe shaking experienced on a rocket ride to Mars. Further fit-checks then follow in France before shipment to the launch site at the famous Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Lift-off has to occur in July/August next year. This date is immovable: you only go to Mars when it's aligned with Earth and the windows of opportunity have an interval of 26 months. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20323384

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