WORLD NEWS
CURIOSITY ROVER HARD AT WORK ON MARS
By Maawhish Mohamed
Have you ever wanted to explore Mars and see what's out there? Well, that's why NASA created the Mars Curiosity Rover! The Mars Curiosity Rover is an automated motor vehicle that moves itself on Mars to explore the red planet. This rover was launched on July 28th, 2012 in a shuttle and landed on Mars on August 5th, 2012. The purpose of this rover is to find out what similarities and differences Earth has between Mars. Recently, the rover had found a flower which is still mysterious because the scientists are unsure if it's a real flower or not. This mysterious flower came out of a rock that is now named after John Klein, a curiosity project manager that died in 2011. "We're thrilled, and we can't wait to get drilling," said project scientist John Grotzinger. Over the next couple weeks, the rover started drilling in the John Klein rock to find out other things in the rock. After drilling, scientists discovered that these rocks were once exposed to water. NASA is planning to launch a new rover in the year 2020.
WATCH THE UNBELIEVABLE VIDEO OF HOW THE ROVER LANDED ON MARS!
INDIAN MUSIC LEGEND RAVI SHANKAR PASSES AWAY
By Gurkirat Chahal
Indian composer and musician Robindro Shankar Chowdary also known as Ravi Shankar
and titled Pandit died on December 11 2012. He was known to be one of the greatest
contemporary musicians in India. He was born in Varanasi, India April 7th 1920 and died in
San Diego, California. He lived to be 92 years old!!! He died due to upper-respirational
difficulties and a heart valve surgery at the Scripps Memorial Hospital. Before his music career he was a dancer. He gave up his dancing career in 1938 to learn classical Indian music. He played classical Indian music using the sitar. A sitar is almost like a guitar. His career as a musician started in 1956 and ended in 2012. He was taught how to play the sitar by Allauddin Khan in 1938 and ended his studies 1944. He was awarded India’s highest civilian honor and he also received 3 Grammy’s awards. Later in his life, after his daughter was born and learned how to play and master the instrument, they both played together as a duo.
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