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The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown of the Chang'e-4 probe, the agency said . The Chang'e-4 unit consists of a lunar station and a lunar rover. Assuming all is well the lander and rover will examine the walls and floor of the crater , using twin cameras, a spectrograph and ground-penetrating radar.

The New Horizons team combined a low-resolution color image of 2014 MU69, or Ultima Thule , with sharper black-and-white imagery to produce the composite view at right. This created a snowman-shaped, two-lobed binary object. We are seeing a physical representation of the beginning of planetary formation, frozen in time.

The probe reached its target on New Year's Day at 12:33 am ET, though the signal travelling at light speed didn't reach Earth until yesterday morning. Less than 1% of the data has returned so far. Another round of imagery and data was received today and will be the focus of a news conference on Thursday.

In its new proposal , the EPA estimates that cost at $7.4 billion to $9.6 billion annually and the benefits at just $4 million to $6 million a year. The EPA proposal Friday would be another administration rollback of federal enforcement under the Clean Air Act.

Comparing data from different instruments aboard Voyager 2, the mission scientists determined the spacecraft crossed the outer edge of the heliosphere on November 5 , 2018. They were to forge their way through our Sun's domain, and become the first human-made objects to break through into interstellar space. Trajectory of Voyager 1 spacecraft shows the scale of the solar system and Oort Cloud.

InSight will spend 24 months - about one Martian year - recording seismic and temperature readings to unlock mysteries about how Mars was formed and will help explain the origins of the Earth and other rocky planets of the inner solar system.

Six additional deaths in a Northern California, raising the death toll to 29 and making it the deadliest wildfire on record in California history. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, who lives just north of coastal Malibu, revealed she was forced to flee her home.

TransCanada says it remains committed to the project despite the Montana judge's ruling that it must pass a further environmental review. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said the Trump administration's projections for the pipeline's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, potential for oil spills and impact on the local Native American community fell short, the Montana-based Great Falls Tribune reports.

Delhi's air quality index on Wednesday showed a slight improvement due to the high-speed wind. Experts have warned of severe spike in pollution levels after Diwali even if "partial toxic crackers" are burnt compared to past year. Warning that the Diwali day is expected to be polluted, weather analysts say that while now the polluting north-westerly winds are blowing higher at 5,000 meters, bringing a temporary relif to the region, the particles will start settling down, adding to ...

Six people are dead in the storm's path, and authorities fear the toll could climb higher as search-and-rescue efforts continue. At least four deaths from the storm have been confirmed in Florida, five in Virginia, one in Georgia and three in North Carolina.

Forecasters say Hurricane Michael will strengthen into a major hurricane by late Tuesday as it continues on a unsafe path towards the southeastern US state of Florida. Ivey signed the emergency declaration Monday in anticipation of wide-spread power outages, wind damage and heavy rain associated with the storm. As Michael moves inland, southern Georgia and southeast Alabama can expect damaging winds, too.

SpaceX has previously landed first stage rockets on land after Florida launches but has not done so on the West Coast. "Sonic boom warning. This won't be subtle", he wrote. launch that it expected that people as far away as Sacramento and Southern California would see the rocket's contrail. Finally, dropping straight down toward Landing Zone 4, the rocket's four landing legs deployed, a single engine re-started and the booster settled to a picture-perfect touchdown in a cloud of smoke.

Kirk is moving "quickly westward" at 24 miles per hour, according to the NHC at 5 a.m. on Sept 24, and it has 35 miles per hour winds. A subtropical storms means the system has characteristics of both tropical and nontropical systems.

The storm is huge, the National Hurricane Center says, and its worst effects will reach "a large area regardless of exactly where the center of Florence moves". Other areas, including the cities of Darlington, S.C., to Greenville, N.C., imposed their own curfews, set to begin Thursday night. Carolina Beach lies on a narrow strip of land in the southern part of North Carolina.

As floodwaters continued to rise, concerns grew about environmental and health dangers. President Donald Trump met with first responders in Conway, South Carolina on Wednesday and warned them of the danger of rising rivers. Cooper's office said Thursday evening that he would issue a proclamation calling the General Assembly into session October 9. White and Lloyd, who live in the North Carolina town of Kelly, were given little time Thursday night to evacuate when the Cape Fear River came ...

The CEO of SpaceX , Musk is also the CEO of Tesla, and has recently been the subject of controversy after alleging that a cave diver who rescued stranded boys was a "pedo". It's unclear what kind of training Maezawa will go through before touring the moon. After people responded with questions, Musk weighed in and confirmed that the render of the Big Falcon Rocket, which is still in development , is new and " intentionally " created to resemble one seen in a classic Tintin comic .

Several rivers in North Carolina are still rising, causing a new flooding. As of Tuesday evening, the storm had been blamed for at least 35 deaths. Supplies have been brought into the city by big military trucks and helicopters, which also were used to pluck hundreds of desperate people from homes and other structures.

Musk outlined a somewhat different SpaceX mission previous year. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has posted new photos and comments teasing the company's imminent BFR and lunar tourism update, showing off a few more angles of the spaceship upper stage's new design ahead of a dedicated event later today.

Thousands of the 20,000 people staying in more than 150 shelters this weekend and others waiting it out elsewhere won't be able to return to their homes for good any time soon. "We're going to get through this". "We just know we're getting out of here". That should spell some relief for the inundated areas of Onslow County, but unfortunately puts the city of Wilmington , southeast coastal communities of North Carolina and northeast areas of SC in the line of fire instead.

Tropical storm-force winds extended 175 miles from Florence's center, and hurricane-force winds reached out 70 miles. More than 415,000 homes and businesses were without power on Friday morning, according to poweroutage.us which tracks the nation's electrical grid.

The storm was about 100 miles southeast of Wilmington and had maximum sustained winds of 100 mph, which is slightly weaker than earlier Thursday, the briefing said. The National Weather Service says more than 10 million residents in three states are under a storm watch or warning because of Hurricane Florence .

UPDATE 5 p.m.: Hurricane Florence's forward speed has slowed to 5 miles per hour as it approaches the Carolinas as a Category 2 hurricane with 105 miles per hour winds . Duke Energy, the nations No. 2 power company, said Florence could knock out electricity to three-quarters of its 4 million customers in the Carolinas, and outages could last for weeks.

And Virginia's governor ordered a mandatory evacuation for some residents of low-lying coastal areas. The storm "is too powerful and its path is too uncertain to take any chances", SC governor Henry McMaster said, issuing his state's emergency declaration.

The first rains and strong winds from Hurricane Florence began hitting North Carolina early Thursday, leading the way for a storm packing 110-mph winds. "We hope to have something left when we get home", she said. Tropical Storm "Isaac" was spotted east of the Lesser Antilles and expected to pass south of Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba, while Hurricane "Helene" was moving northward away from land.

The National Hurricane Center's latest predictions Wednesday had Florence hovering off Southeast shores for more than two days before making landfall near the North Carolina/South Carolina border, perhaps not until Saturday . As of Tuesday, about 1.7 million people in North and SC and Virginia were under warnings to evacuate the coast, and hurricane watches and warnings extended across an area with about 5.4 million residents.

In today's area synopsis, the National Weather Service says, "Light and variable winds will continue through Monday as Tropical Storm Norman tracks northward and away from the state". Hurricane Isaac is now located 1,305 miles west of the Windward Islands with sustained wind speeds of 75 mph. Large swells generated by Olivia are expected to continue to increase near the main Hawaiian Islands, and surf will to build as Olivia approaches, and may become damaging on some exposed east facing ...

However Florence has still maintained a solid core overnight and upper air winds are forecast to begin relaxing today. As the cyclone headed toward the U.S. The weakening nudged the storm on more of a westerly course toward the U.S. Weaker storms are steered by different layers of the atmosphere than stronger storms.

ET. A storm spinning toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast is expected to turn into a tropical storm late Monday, bringing heavy rains, strong winds and unsafe tides, the National Hurricane Center said. A tropical storm warning is in effect for much of Louisiana's southeastern coast. The warning means there is danger of life-threatening inundation.

Democrats have been fiercely critical of the Trump administration for not providing sufficient documentation about Kavanaugh's time in Bush's White House, where he may have played key roles in terrorism-related decisions such as permitting the torture of detainees.

Put out my hand to introduce myself as Jaime Guttenberg's dad. "No security involved. He turned and walked away". As Kavanaugh turned, Guttenberg said "My daughter was murdered in Parkland" and then "have a good day". In each case, Kavanaugh said, he followed the law and did not let any personal or policy preferences get in his way. "A judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent", he said.

Here is the latest forecast track and timing for Gordon. Rapid weakening is expected after Gordon moves inland. But authorities issued a voluntary evacuation order for areas outside the citys levee protection system, including the Venetian Isles, Lake Saint Catherine and Irish Bayou areas.

The subtropical depression is expected to become Subtropical Storm Ernesto later Wednesday. So why is it considered subtropical and why are these types of storms given names? Dry air, cool water and high upper level winds have hindered pure tropical low pressure systems only to favor types of storms that resemble mid-latitude or extratropical storms.

It will also result in the release of more soot and smog-forming chemicals that will kill up to 1,400 Americans a year by 2030, EPA documents show. In November 2015, a coalition of 25 states, cities and counties intervened in defense of the Clean Power Plan against the challenge in the D.C.

Dutton, a conservative who has the support of the powerful right wing of the Liberal Party , resigned from the Cabinet after losing the vote, Turnbull said. "If the prime minister's own party does not want him, and almost half of his party voted against him remaining prime minister, why should the parliament put up with him?" "In politics you have to focus on what you can deliver", Mr Turnbull told reporters on Monday.

In the lead up to the vote, Turnbull's supporters believed the prime minister has a majority of the party room but Dutton's camp was adamant their candidate can secure at least 43 of the 85 members of the federal Liberal party room. "I think there might be a second phase strategy here". Such a situation occurred when Turnbull took the leadership from Abbott, with an "empty chair" challenge in February 2015 returning Abbott but a September 2015 challenge seeing Turnbull take the top job.

He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2014. Lowry says even organic products can contain pesticides. There are more than 5 000 similar plaintiffs across the US. Now there's another popular food product that people need to be concerned about, according to a new report released by the Environmental Working Group.

However, the meteors can appear anywhere in the sky. "The Perseids have been observed for around 2000 years, and are the result of Earth passing through a cloud of dust left behind Comet Swift-Tuttle". If you want to be a serious citizen scientist, you can report your meteor counts and statistics to the International Meteor Organization (based in Belgium), which will compile the observational records every year.

According to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center , the center of the storm was located about 470 miles east-southeast of Hilo, or about 665 miles east-southeast of Honolulu. Hawaii County officials are urging residents to secure loose items and be prepared for changing conditions. It was moving northwest at 8 miles per hour (13 kph).

They said the average cost of a new automobile is $35,000 and attributed part of that to increasing fuel standards. Under the current standards, set in a deal with automakers in 2012 , cars were supposed to get significantly cleaner between 2022 and 2025, ending up at an average of around 54 miles per gallon and saving drivers gas costs and cutting pollution.

Congress ultimately boosted NASA's overall budget for the fiscal year that began on October 1 to almost $20.7 billion, part of a defense spending binge that also benefited nondefense projects. "Safely and reliably flying commercial crew missions for NASA remains the highest priority for SpaceX", said Benji Reed, Director of Crew Mission Management at SpaceX .