Exploring The Surface Of Mars | May 23, 2023 (2023)

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Today CNN 10 takes you to Myanmar where Cyclone Mocha has devastated the southeastern Asian country with heavy floods, wiping out entire villages. Authorities say more than 400 people have died, but the death toll may rise. Then CNN 10 heads to Mars where NASA updates us on its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission and says data shows the possible history of water on the red planet. Then CNN 10 heads to the island nation of Mauritius where conservationists are looking to restore its ebony forests and exotic bird species. And before you go, CNN 10 heads to San Diego where engineers built and shook the world’s tallest earthquake simulation building. All that and more on this episode of CNN 10.

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Let's start today with a quick zip through some of the headlines making the news first up a devastating Cyclone has rocked the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar Cyclone mocha, a category 5 storm with Winds of up to 195 miles per hour, battered the nation leaving entire Villages, wiped out, shelters, destroyed and piles of debris stretching for miles is considered.

One of the strongest storms to ever hit Myanmar and authorities say more than 400 people have died according to un's humanitarian office, Clean Water, Supplies and fuel are running low and there is critical need for shelters, food, medicine and health care services, thoughts and prayers for the people there.

Next, we go to Europe where the European Union Regulators, have fined social media giant meta, a record-breaking 1.3 billion dollars for transferring the personal data of Facebook's EU users to servers in the U.S meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, said it would appeal the ruling, including the fine, and it also says there would be no immediate disruption of the Facebook app in Europe meta says.

The root of this issue comes from a quote: conflict of law between U.S rules on access to data and the Privacy rights of Europeans.

Next up we head to Florida, where we had a successful rocket launch check out this SpaceX rocket, taking off on Sunday as the crew embarks on a week-long stay aboard the International Space Station, the dragon Freedom spacecraft crew is led by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson who's.

Now, the first woman to command a private space flight she's joined by three paying customers stem cell researcher, Rihanna barnawi is making history as the first woman from Saudi Arabia to ever travel to space.

This marks the second all-private mission to the International Space Station houston-based company Axiom space is in charge of the journey called ax2 all right.

Let's stay out of this world and head to the red planet or Mars.

Back in the summer of 2020 NASA launched a space rover called Mars 2020 perseverance.

This small mobile robot eventually landed on Mars seven months later.

The main goal of this mission was for the Rover to look for signs of past microbial life snag some rock and soil samples and best of all prepare for human exploration in the future.

Remember no human has ever been to Mars our Ashley Strickland sat down with a NASA scientist who gives us exciting, updates on the mission and the possible history of water on one of Mars's craters.

Where is perseverance Rover currently, and what is it up to these days? So perseverance is still in Jezreel crater.

It is on this fan that is in Jezreel crater and we've now climbed up on top of this fan and are exploring the sedimentary rocks on the top surface of the fan.

What can we hope to learn from this area? We have recorded different depositional environments that could be Lake environments, Delta environments, River environments that really capture the history of water in Jezreel crater.

So what are some of the different types of rock that perseverance has encountered since it landed two years ago we had a lot of debates early on before we landed, sedimentary or igneous formed by volcanoes or formed deposited by water or wind, and as it turned out, these were igneous rocks, which was of surprise to us, but a really pleasant.

Surprise, because igneous rocks contain different kinds of information that we're interested in for return sample science, and so we have things like volcanic salt rocks that likely formed deep in the interior of Mars from magma.

Then we transitioned from that crater floor into the sedimentary deposits and now we're here in sandstones conglomerates, mud Stones, the kinds of rocks that are deposited by flowing water.

What could we hope to learn from this diverse array of samples when they come back to earth? The fact that we have a diverse set of rocks means we have different types of potential habitable environments recorded within these rocks surface watery environments.

We know from here on Earth is a good place to record signs of ancient life, but there's also the potential that life could find habitable niches in igneous rocks when water flows through those rocks underground you've been wanting to get outside of the crater.

So what does that look like? There are a lot of mysteries outside the crater.

This is some of the oldest crust in the solar system and we're going to have a chance to explore that with the Rover.

But this is a part of solar system.

History.

That's not well preserved here on Earth, so we're going to get to see rocks of this age for the first time on Mars, it's unclear what these rocks are to look like 10, second trivia name, the island country off the coast of Africa, whose capital is Port, Louis, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar or Gambia.

Mauritius is your answer here.

The island nation gained independence from the UK in 1968.

Now Mauritius is an island nation, that's closely linked to its vast ebony Forest.

Historically, these durable black hardwood trees were used for building Furniture cabinets, even piano keys, but now conservationists are doing reservation initiatives looking to save the forest along with its exotic bird species.

Our Zane Asher has more some 12 000 miles of the Southeastern coast of Africa in the middle of the Indian.

Ocean lies the island where the iconic dodo bird once roamed centuries after its Extinction, the flightless bird, is still inextricably linked with the African nation of Mauritius.

You can find it on banknotes coins and the country's coat of arms.

Today, Dr Nicholas zuel and his team of conservationists are working hard to ensure other endemic species.

Don't go the way of the dodo before human beings came to Mauritius.

The forest would look like what you see around us rest remains on the island, depart to poaching pollution and logging.

Historically, one of the most sought after resources, the ebony tree is Coveted for its durable black hardwood, which is used to build Furniture cabinets, piano keys and more now the global trade of ebony wood is controlled and most species have been protected to prevent Extinction.

The history of Mauritius is closely linked to ebony trees because when the Dutch colonized the island, one of the reason, the main reason we wanted to colonize the island is to be able to exploit the ebony trees.

The journey to restore this patch of forest located on the Southwest part of the island began in 2006.

The work started with weeding planting and growing native plant species.

It also involved the reintroduction of locally extinct species like the pink pigeon and the echo parakeet, both considered vulnerable and globally threatened.

It's important to have Birds, because Forest restoration and the animal battle live in it goes hand in hand.

So without seeing this person, the forest will not survive.

So, yes, we are linked to extinction of species with the dodo, but we're also an example of what can be done to save our bird species restoration.

The ebony Forest Park, officially opened to the public in 2017.

visitors, can Bird Watch hike or volunteer and contribute to the conservation efforts on this tropical island paradise.

So it's really important for a ceremony Forest to raise awareness about species about conservation.

So that's something which is really important for us to just work together with people share the knowledge and also learn from others.

To date, the conservationists say: they've planted more than 140 000 endemic plants, while also weeding and planting 16 additional hectares of forest.

With the dodo's Legacy in mind.

The ultimate goal is to safeguard the Island's natural glory for generations to come and ultimately osmosis as lots of endemic species.

It's a narrative, but for the old world, what we are preserving here.

We are shaking things up with some researchers from the University of California San Diego for today's story, getting a 10 out of 10., a group of Engineers built and tested the tallest full-scale building ever on an earthquake, simulator or Shake table 10 stories.

High shaken, like a salt shaker in simulations of two of the strongest Quakes in recent history, a 6.7 and a 7.7 magnitude and the historic tests were a success.

The building was damage free.

The data is going to be used to help design safer buildings and bridges.

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