The Young Chronicle: For 2nd Graders March 27, 2015

March 28th, 2015 THE YOUNG CHRONICLE For 8-9 Year Olds or 2nd - 3rd Graders Inside this issue: Kids Shine At National Film 2 Plane Crashes in the Near Past 2 Author of Slumdog 3 Millionaire, to become Secretary in the Foreign Affairs Ministry Bihar’s Cheating Scan- 3 dal Saina Nehwal Turns Number 1 4 Special points of interest:  Rahul Gandhi Goes Missing  Comparison Between Xiomi MiPad and iPad Mini MARTIAN MILESTONES NASA launched a Robot called the Curiosity Rover. The rover, that had initially been sent for a period of 3 months, ended up staying on Mars for over 11 years, thus covering 26.219 miles (42 kilometres)the first-ever Martian marathon, beating the previous record held by the Soviet-era Lunokhod 2 Moon Rover. The rover was launched in January 25, 2004, and is still going strong! NASA's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have had life on it. The Curiosity team has already found evidence that other ingredients needed for life, such as water once existed on Mars, on the Gale Crater. TWO YEAR OLD HITS THE BULLSEYE TOTAL NO. OF POINTS: 388 NO. OF ARROWS: 36 TARGET 1 DISTANCE: 5 METRES Two-year-old Dolly Shivani Cherukuri from Vijaywada, Andhra Pradesh became the youngest InTARGET 2 DISTANCE: 7 METRES dian to score more than 200 points at a trial event on March 24. Her name has entered the InHER AGE: 2 YEARS dia Book of Records. She has been training since birth with special arrows made of out of carbon to ensure they were light enough for her to carry. Dolly celebrates her third birthday next week!