NASA teams watch the first photos sent by the Perseverance rover on 18 February 2020. – Bill Ingalls / AP / SIPA
They ‘did ! The Perseverance rover landed on the Martian soil after seven months of travel, confirmed this Thursday NASA , after a perilous descent of seven minutes in the Martian atmosphere. A resounding success for the American space agency which marks the beginning of a mission lasting several years in search of traces of past life . “Landing confirmed! Exclaimed Swati Mohan, in charge of operations control. In the control room of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, the teams present exploded with joy. They were immediately congratulated by Joe Biden, but also Emmanuel Macron. Cold wave in Texas: Crucified for having gone to Cancun, Ted Cruz returns urgently and recognizes an “error”
This is a rather incomprehensible political blunder. While Texas is paralyzed by a cold snap who did more of 18 dead in the United States , his senator Ted Cruz flew with his family to travel to sunny Cancun, Mexico on Wednesday. Faced with indignation, with still 310. Texans deprived of electricity, he said he wanted to be “a good father” because his daughters were cold in their house without heating. Regretting “an error”, the former presidential candidate, who is credited with serious ambitions for 2021, crashed back, alone, to Houston.
Due to the crisis related to the coronavirus epidemic , the French car manufacturer Renault recorded a historic loss of 8 billion euros during one year 660, announced the group in a statement released on Friday. In the second half of the year, the group limited the breakage with a turnover down only 8.9% and 500 millions of euros of net loss. But its annual figures remain weighed down
by sales down from – 20, 3% and the results of its Japanese partner Nissan.