News October 30, 2024

NASA rover climbs daunting slope, views its remarkable Mars adventure

NASA’s Perseverance rover is facing challenges as it ascends a steep slope on Mars. The rover’s six metallic tires slip and slide on the loose sand, making it difficult for the robot to make progress. Despite these obstacles, the rover has discovered a leopard-spotted rock that may have been created by microbial organisms. The sample collected by the rover must be brought back to Earth for further study, which is a complex and costly Mars Sample Return mission currently being assessed by NASA. Once the rover completes its ascent, it will continue its exploration of Jezero Crater and search for clues to Mars’ past climate and habitability.

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A Lost Mayan City Has Been Found With Laser Mapping

A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been discovered. The discovery was made using state-of-the-art technology such as lasers and drones to map the city beneath the jungle. The city is believed to have been built before AD 150 and features a network of previously unexplored settlements. The discovery was made by Luke Auld-Thomas, an anthropologist at Northern Arizona University, who used airborne laser scanning to create a topographic map of the area with a resolution of up to 1 meter. This technology has the potential to revolutionize the way archaeologists explore the hidden past and could be integrated into autonomous cars to help them avoid crashes.

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65% OFF Walmart Promo Codes, Coupons | November 2024

Wally World in the Midwest was a revelation after living in big cities like San Francisco and New York. Rows of fluorescent lights highlighted every product needed for your house, making it feel like a one-stop shop. Walmart offers up to $1,110 off the new iPhone 16 with no coupon code needed. The store also has thousands of flash deals that change weekly, offering up to 65% off tech, appliances, end-of-season, and holiday items. Walmart+ is a paid membership that offers early access to promotions and events like Walmart Black Friday deals, free delivery, free shipping with no order minimum, savings on fuel, streaming with Paramount+, and more. You can pay monthly or annually, and you’ll get a free trial of Walmart+ for 30 days to try it out.

The Halloween shop at Walmart offers up to 25% off decorations, inflatables, costumes, and more. You can also purchase a Walmart Halloween costume for as little as $5 for select styles, find decor sets for your front lawn for as little as $2, or stock up on some sweet treats for $5.

The Holiday gift HQ from Walmart offers products ranging from bath and body advent calendar gift sets to products such as suede platform boots or even the viral Ninja CREAMi Ice Cream maker (that’s now $50 off). Walmart makes it easy to filter by things like age group or gender so you can find the perfect gift for any loved one this holiday season.

Walmart is where you can buy a patio furniture set, baby formula, fertilizer, fill your eyeglass prescription, get a pedicure, the new iPhone 16 Pro or maybe a Subway sandwich. Walmart offers great deals on virtually everything above the internet’s seafloor cables, including great electronics like TVs, grills, and even 3D-printed pants for up to 65% off with flash deals or save as much as $260 off daily rollbacks.

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The speedy Macbook Pro M3 is on sale for over $300 off

The 2023 MacBook Pro with M3 chip is now available at Amazon for $1,299, down from its usual list price of $1,599. This laptop features an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, making it a powerful workhorse that can handle even the most demanding tasks. The 14.2-inch Liquid Retina XDR display is also impressive, with 1000 nits of sustained brightness for HDR content and 600 nits for SDR. Additionally, it has a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, three-mic array, and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio, making video calls and audio playback a breeze. This MacBook Pro is available in space gray and comes with regular software updates, making it a great value at $300 off its usual price.

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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for October 30

Connections is a word game that requires players to find common threads between words. Each puzzle features 16 words, with four sets of words that share something in common. The goal is to group these words together and remove them from the board if they are correct. If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake, up to four mistakes before the game ends.

Today’s Connections puzzle features 16 words that can be grouped into four categories: Upswing, Things with Wheels, Kinds of Tape, and Retail Chains with a Letter Changed. The correct answers are:

Upswing: BOOM, RISE, SPIKE, SURGE Things with Wheels: DOLLY, ROLLERBLADE, SKATEBOARD, WAGON Kinds of Tape: DUCT, ELECTRICAL, GAFFER, PACKING Retail Chains with a Letter Changed: BEST BOY, IDEA, KRONER, STABLES

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