The light snow in December is long in the rear-view mirror for ski resorts in Lake Tahoe. The recent storms moving through Northern California have led to more snowfall, leaving most ski resorts operating at nearly full capacity. Heavenly in South Lake Tahoe as of Thursday is reporting 68% of his trails open. Northstar on […]
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‘It’s sort of been invincible until this moment:’ Mars helicopter Ingenuity pilot says ‘bland’ terrain may have doomed NASA chopper
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter was apparently done in by a particularly boring patch of Mars ground. Ingenuity suffered damage to at least one of its four rotor blades during a Jan. 18 flight, grounding the pioneering chopper forever, NASA officials announced today (Jan. 25). While team members are still analyzing what happened on that fateful sortie, […]
ATV rider killed in sinkhole crash on ‘crazy’ unstable terrain, Arizona rescuers say
A crash into a sinkhole killed an ATV rider, Arizona firefighters reported. “The crazy part of this call is there (were) sinkholes and tunnels all around that were not visible very well, causing very unstable ground, some holes being approximately 40 feet deep,” the Greer Fire District said in a news release. Emergency crews responded […]