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Daily News… ANCIENT MARS COULD HAVE SUPPORTED PRIMITIVE LIFE, NASA SAYS A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA’s Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments «shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes,» NASA officials announced Tuesday in a statement and press conference. The discovery comes just seven months after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars to spend at least two years determining if the planet could have ever supported primitive life. «A fundamental question for this mission is whether Mars could have supported a habitable environment,» said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. «From what we know now, the answer is yes. on Feb. 8, boring 2.5 inches into an outcrop called John Klein using its arm-mounted hammering drill, going deeper than any robot had ever dug into the Red Planet before. Two weeks later, the rover transferred the resulting gray powder samples into two onboard instruments called Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) and Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM. CheMin and SAM identified some of the key chemical ingredients for life in this powder, including sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon. The fine-grained John Klein rock also contains clay minerals, suggesting a longago aqueous environment that was salty and neutral, researchers said — that is to say, a place that likely was habitable. Analysis of the samples was complicated by a computer glitch that’s still affecting Curiosity today. In late February, Curiosity’s handlers determined that a glitch had affected the flash memory on the rover’s main, or A-side, computer system. So they swapped the rover over to its backup (B-side) computer, which caused the robot to go into a protective «safe mode» on Feb. 28. Curiosity emerged from this safe mode on March 2, only to be put on standby briefly once again a few days later to wait out a Mars-bound solar eruption.
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International News… PLAIN FOOD TO FOCUS CARDINALS’ MIND ON NEW POPE The cardinals locked away to choose the next pope will be served plain but wholesome food -- and nothing so delicious that they will want to drag out their deliberations, an Italian newspaper reported. The nuns who will cook for the 115 cardinals during the papal conclave at their Casa Santa Marta residence «are already preparing meals of soup, spaghetti, small meat kebabs and boiled vegetables». «All of the cardinals consider these dishes as rather forgettable compared to the menus at the restaurants in Rome,» the Corriere della Sera added.
BEYONCE, DONALD TRUMP AMONG CELEBS TARGETED BY HACKERS WITH RUSSIAN TIES Beyonce, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump — as well as Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and several other celebrities and politicians — were hacked by a group operating under a Russian web address, resulting in the release of numerous pieces of personal and financial information.Exposed.su, the hackers’ home page, was taken off-line Tuesday. It featured the header “The Secret Files” and motto, “If you believe that God makes miracles, you have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve.”
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