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Two 115-feet parachutes to help UK’s first rover ‘Rosalind Franklin’ land safely on Mars

The team that carried out the tests at the desert has confirmed that the full-scale high-altitude drop test of the two 115-ft parachutes that would deliver the Mars rover in 2023, is successful.
Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday being commemorated

She contributed to the discovery of the molecular structure of the DNA. It was work in making clearer X-ray patterns of DNA molecules that laid the foundation for James Watson and Francis Crick to discover the double-helix polymer structure of DNA.

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