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Total investments for female startup founders amounted to only 2.2 percent of venture dollars raised in 2018, according to Fortune Magazine; for black entrepreneurs, that number was just above 1 percent. W.E. Cornell and Black Entrepreneurs in Training, a pair of recently launched Cornell groups, aimed to change this current state of affairs.
The NASA InSight lander will be providing weather reports from Mars’ surface while it gathers seismological data about Mars’ interior.
Ninety days. That’s all anyone expected to get out of Spirit and Opportunity, the twin rovers that first touched down on Mars in January of 2004. And yet, we are only just now saying goodbye to Opportunity, who lived for 90 days and then 5,262 more. The longevity of the Mars Exploration Rover project is a testament to the ingenuity, hard work and vision of the scientists, engineers, researchers and more who devoted themselves to expanding humanity’s knowledge of the universe. The rovers are also a crowning achievement for Cornell: The project’s principal investigator is Prof. Steven Squyres ’78 Ph.D. ’81, the James A. Weeks Professor of physical sciences.
Principal investigator of the Mars rover missions, Prof. Steven Squyres ’78 is “now teaching adults, college students, who cannot remember a time when there wasn’t a rover on Mars.” The rover, Opportunity, who has been on Mars for 14 years became unresponsive in June following a massive dust storm on the planet.
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