Category: Kids News

The Mars Perseverance rover has collected its first samples, using a group of instruments called SuperCam. It has spectrometers, an audio recording device, and a laser, to zap objects up to 20 feet away. The tools are gathering data, about Martian soil. Percy still has lots of instruments to try out, including a helicopter drone.

Do you always leave things until the last minute? I also procrastinate, but I’m trying to get better. That’s why I’m telling you about Procrastination Week today, instead of on Saturday, when it ends. Procrastination Week actually started last Sunday. You still have a few days to put off celebrating, doing things later!

Today is Johnny Appleseed Day, 1 of 2 days celebrating John Chapman. He traveled around the United States, planting orchards of apple trees. He used his tin hat as a pot, and ate out of it! It’s also Worship Of Tools Day, so polish your hammer and charge up your drill. Tools are wonderful things.

Not everyone likes snakes, but it’s hard to resist an unusual ball python. The yellow and white snake, has 3 smiley faces on its back. Justin Kobylka has been breeding snakes for 20 years, and while some of his pythons have had one happy face, this is his first snake with 3 big smiles.

Last month, a fireball flew through the sky in the UK, leaving a meteorite in a driveway in Winchcombe. Researchers studied the space rock, and identified it as a carbonaceous chondrite. It came from an asteroid formed during the earliest days of the Solar System, giving scientists valuable information about what planets are made of.

Paleontologists are eggs-cited, about an eggs-traordinary fossil discovery in China. They’ve found a fossilized nest, with the preserved skeleton of an oviraptor, crouched over 2 dozen eggs. Some of the eggs even contain fossilized embryos, which were almost ready to hatch! It’s solid evidence that dinosaurs sat on eggs until they hatched, like birds.

Saint Patrick’s Day parades are coming, which usually includes bagpipers wearing kilts. Get prepared today, on International Bagpipe Day. You can make your own, out of a garbage bag and recorders. Find the bagpipe instructions on instructables.com. It’s Skirt Day too, so wear a skirt or kilt while playing bagpipes for the whole neighborhood.

March 10th abbreviated, spells M-A-R-1-0. MARIO! It’s Mario Day, so don’t forget to wear overalls! It’s the Day Of Awesomeness too, so remember to be totally awesome, while you play your favorite Super Mario games! You should also wear an awesome wig, for International Wig Day. I always wanted purple hair!

David Rush and his neighbor, Seth Lemmon, found the perfect world record to set while social distancing. The duo passed a giant beach ball back and forth from 6 1/2 feet apart, over and over and over again. They couldn’t drop it, or hold it more than 2 seconds. They completed 4169 passes in a row, in 49 minutes.

Pointillism is a method of painting, using small dots of color to form a bigger image, like pixels on a screen. New York artist Bradley Hart, is more into Bubble-ism. He uses bubble wrap as his canvas, and injects paint into each bubble. 1 side ends up smooth and clean, the other bumpy and drippy.