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The 3,000ft-high Golden Bridge in Vietnam, which appears to be held up by two huge hands sticking out the side of a mountain, has become a major tourist destination within a month of opening.

Tito Ortiz talks about his career and how Dana White turned down a third fight with Chuck Liddell.

POLL: Google says Google+ currently has low usage and engagement and that 90 percent of Google+ user sessions last less than five seconds. Can we increase it?? #Google #News #GooglePlus

Jimmy Butler has played seven games with the Sixers. He's already made two game-winning shots.

A tiny cubesat cruising through interplanetary space has captured a new glimpse of Mars, just before watching NASA's InSight lander touch down the Red Planet. The cubesat, one of two Mars Cube One probes (called MarCO for short) snapped the Mars photo on Saturday (Nov. 24). That's two days before the InSight probe is due to land on the plains of Elysium Planitia Monday (Nov. 26) to study the interior of Mars.

"We are taking more pictures," MarCo-A mission manager Cody Colley told reporters in a press conference Sunday (Nov. 26). "The MarCOs use a very off-the-shelf camera, and we're learning as we go as we take those pictures."

The twin MarCo cubesats are demonstration craft built to test the potential of tiny satellites for interplanetary missions. They launched with the InSight Mars lander in May, and are the first cubesats ever to fly an interplanetary mission.

Scientists hope the MarCO cubesats can serve as a communications relay during InSight's landing on Mars, beaming telemetry from the lander back to Earth. Each MarCO probe is about the size of a briefcase and is equipped with an attitude control system that uses the compressed gas R236FA, which is commonly used in fire extinguishers. That prompted NASA scientists to nickname them "Wall-E" and "Eva" after the two robots who use a fire extinguisher to fly in space in Disney's animated film "Wall-E."

Unlike InSight, the MarCO probes won't stop at Mars. They'll fly by the Red Planet and continue on in the space between planets, NASA officials have said.



*The photo (below) was taken by the MarCO-B cubesat, showing Mars (lower left) on 24 November 2018, from a distance of about 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers), according to a NASA image description.

The world will be holding its breath.

On Nov. 26, NASA will make history on Mars. The space agency's newest Mars probe, the InSight Mars lander, will touch down on the flat plains of Elysium Planitia to study the Red Planet's core like never before. Armed with a crane, heat probe and seismometer, InSight will look deep to understand Marsquakes and other Martian secrets. See our full coverage of the mission below and visit Space.com to watch it liveMonday (Nov. 26)! TODAY!!

Boxing Highlights 13 ... "Best Comebacks & Epic Finishes" ... 9 out of 10

The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are one of Iceland's most famous attractions. These beautiful green (and sometimes white, pink and purple!) lights dance around the sky in Iceland quite frequently – but can only be seen in the wintertime. The reason: In order to see them, first of all, it needs to be dark.

94 Year Old Former LIFE Magazine Photographer Fred Lyon Shares His Incredible Photos of San Francisco

This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744.

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Using the Command Line for #Automation - Part II
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UN Security Council holds emergency meeting today as tensions between #Russia and #Ukraine escalates with seizure of 3 Ukrainian ships by Russians https://bit.ly/2TDZJUB UNSC http://ow.ly/i/JKiSL http://ow.ly/i/JKiT4

Google+ is shutting down due to massive data exposure #Google #GooglePlus -

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Sheer panic has been driving down crude prices: Vandana Hari