A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Whale rock on Mar One explanation for Whale is a static model, and the other is a dynamic time model," explains Prof Gupta, from Imperial College London. The latter may be right, and that would be really exciting because it is telling us something about the water budget changing. But the important thing is that we are seeing the interface between the rivers and the lakes. Whale is a marker for us that they existed at the same time, and that really gives us confidence in particular that we are seeing ancient lake deposits. At the point when researchers first saw it in pictures came back from Nasa's Curiosity meanderer on Mars, they truly weren't certain what to make of it. Sitting glad on top of a heap of finely layered mudstones, this coarser sandstone outcrop appeared a bit strange. Along these lines, the group charged the robot to drive here and there for a bit, to take a gander at some other tempting geography in Gale Crater. Be that as it may, ...