🛰️The first analysis of images from Nasa’s Perseverance rover show the Jezero crater was once a huge 21-mile wide lake, which was fed by a river, and which suffered flash flooding
🦠However, researchers are most excited by the discovery of layers of fine-grained clay and mudstones at the site, because they could preserve traces of ancient life telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/0…
Prof Sanjeev Gupta said: “We're not expecting to find fossils, but we could find evidence of microbial life."
🗣️“I think finding life is entirely likely. It would seem surprising that life only formed on Earth and these are definitely the right rocks to look for it.”
Zoomed images taken by Perseverance of the cliffs surrounding the crater show sloping rock beds sandwiched between horizontal layers that indicate rocky deposits from an ancient river telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/0…
🌞The team says it suggests that there was steady water flow, consistent with a warm and humid Martian climate 3.7 billion years ago telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/0…
🌄“If you look at these images, you’re basically staring at this epic desert landscape" said Benjamin Weiss, professor of planetary sciences in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Boulders weighing several tons, were found to have come from outside the crater, and were probably part of the original bedrock.
💧The floods required to move the boulders were likely to have raged at 20 miles an hour
🌏As well as providing more details about Mars, sampling the boulders could give important clues about Earth’s early geology which has since been destroyed by tectonic activity
🔴UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain
🔴The Dutch military intelligence service has warned companies that Moscow is trying to obtain high-tech assets for its war in Ukraine through front companies, local media has reported
🔴 Ukrainians will freeze to death this winter if the West does not urgently send blankets and generators to keep them warm, Vitali Klitschko has said
The 51-year-old mayor of Kyiv, and former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, told The Telegraph's @Barnes_Joe that increasing Russian attacks on power plants have left his country on the brink of a fresh humanitarian crisis
🔴America is to bring forward the delivery of dozens of highly accurate guided tactical nuclear weapons to Europe amid escalating tensions with Moscow
➡️In what was seen as a move to reassure Nato allies amid Russian nuclear-sabre-rattling, the replacement process will begin in December, having previously been expected next spring
Before the war, when “Maugly” came across a rival football team supporter, it would usually end in a brawl.
Muscular, tattooed and with a shaved head, he looks every inch the football hooligan - and he admits he has acted like it too telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
He is part of Hoods Hoods Klan, an anti-fascist, anti-racist ultra group that supported the now-bankrupt Arsenal Kyiv and engaged in violence with rival football factions known for including neo-Nazis.
But all that has changed. Now they are more concerned with Russia’s violence