Curiosity
NASA scientists sent Curiostiy to Mars in 2011. This was the first time we ever had something on Mars to try and investigate it! In 2014, it even found traces of water.
The Most Iconic Inventions of the 2010s
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- In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
- A solar powered, self-filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders that condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically fill the bottle.
- Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
- You spend about 10% of the time you're awake blinking.
Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.