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  NASA’s Perseverance rover makes historic Mars landing Krudant The first image sent by NASA’s Perseverance rover upon touching down on Mars shows its shadow upon the Red Planet's surface, at the Jezero crater.   | Photo Credit:  @NazaPersevere/Twitter The rover will begin its search for traces of ancient microbial life on Mars NASA's science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles burst into applause and cheers as radio signals confirmed that the six-wheeled rover had survived its perilous descent and arrived within its target zone inside Jezero Crater, site of a long-vanished Martian lake bed. The robotic vehicle sailed through space for nearly seven months, covering 293 ...

 Hello friends, I am KRUDANT back here on THE SMART SIDE!!!!! I am going to share some amusing facts about INDIA.. 1) 5000 years old, Varanasi is One of The Oldest Inhabited Places in the World 2) A Meteor formed the Breathtaking Lonar Lake in Maharashtra 3) Snakes and Ladders was invented in  India . 4) India  is officially known as the Republic of  India . 5) The national symbol of India is the endangered Bengal Tiger. 6) India  has never invaded any country. 7) India has the largest postal network in the world with over 1, 55,015 post offices.The floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar, was inaugurated in August 2011. 8)The 2011 Kumbh Mela was the largest gathering of people with over 75 million pilgrims. The gathering was so huge that the crowd was visible from space. 9)Bandra Worli Sealink has steel wires equal to the earth's circumference 14)The first rocket in India was transported on a cycle 19)The human calculator It took a total of 2,57,00,000 man h...

  Tintin comic book art breaks auction record at $3.1 million Painting for the original cover of “The Blue Lotus (Lotus Bleu)” Tintin comic book (1936) is displayed before being auctioned by Artcurial in Paris on January 13, 2021. | Photo Credit:  REUTERS AP PARIS  15 JANUARY 2021 01:37 IST UPDATED: 15 JANUARY 2021 14:37 IST         A Tintin drawing by the Belgian artist Herge sold on January 14 in Paris for €2.6 million ($3.1 million), breaking the record for the most expensive comic book art in history. The 1936 work in Chinese ink, gouache and watercolour was destined as a cover for  The Blue Lotus,  the fifth volume of the adventures of Tintin, a young reporter created by Hergé. The work features a red dragon on a black background by the frightened character's face. It never graced store shelves because it was deemed too expensive to reproduce on a wide scale, a victim of the artist's craftsmanship. Advertising Advertising In  B...