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“I’m Doing a Rock Album”: Doja Cat Confuses Fans With Announcement Her Next LP Will Have “No Rap at All”
Genre bending and blending have always been the game for hit rapper Doja Cat.
Despite naming Hip-Hop as her claim to fame, the GRAMMY winner has experimented with a myriad sounds from R&B and Pop influence to Latin, World Music, and even those leaning on the Rock end of the musical spectrum.
The latter, as revealed by a set of confusing tweets recently,
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Space rock slams into Mars and explodes
![impact craters on Mars](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/03FCsslLKtFhant3kBCCpnU/hero-image.jpg)
Just over a year ago, a space rock hurtled through the Martian atmosphere, broke apart, and slammed into the red desert.
NASA just revealed footage of the new impact craters on Sept. 19, as well as three other earlier impacts. The collisions were significant enough for the space agency’s geologic probe, InSight, to detect “marsquakes” from up to 180 miles away.
“After three years of InSight waiting to detect an impact, those craters looked beautiful,” Ingrid Daubar, a planetary scientist at Brown University, said in a NASA statement.
The image atop this story shows the result of a meteoroid — a space rock that has yet to impact the surface — that exploded in the Martian atmosphere into at least three “shards,” ultimately leaving three fresh craters in the ground, NASA explained. The InSight lander, equipped with a sensitive seismometer, detected the explosion and impacts. Although InSight is running out of power, it certainly continues to make meaningful extraterrestrial observations.
After InSight detected the booms, NASA sent its Martian satellite, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, to scour the region for darkened patches on the desert floor. Dark areas are telltale evidence of newly disturbed soil and dust. (The unnatural blue hues are added to make impact details more apparent.)
“Those craters looked beautiful.”
A few other impact craters detected by InSight and imaged by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2020 and 2021 are shown below:
![meteroid impacts on Mars](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/03FCsslLKtFhant3kBCCpnU/images-1.fill.size_2000x650.v1663620533.jpg)
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona
Space is a story of collisions. They happen regularly in our solar system. Often wayward asteroids make chance impacts with other objects orbiting the sun.
Our solar system isn’t nearly as chaotic as it was billion of years ago, so impacts are relatively fewer. But the heavily-cratered moon, whose surface isn’t recycled like Earth’s, leaves poignant evidence of cosmic impacts in our solar system neighborhood.
NASA and its astronomical partners are vigilantly watching skies for any potential impacts with Earth in the coming years. But there’s nothing threatening, that we know about, on the horizon. As Mashable previously reported:
“Fortunately, no known asteroid over 460 feet across will threaten Earth in the next century or so. The chances of a major impact in our lifetimes is, as far as we know, extremely small, astronomers say. To illustrate, impacts by objects around 460 feet in diameter occur every 10,000 to 20,000 years, and a “dinosaur-killing” impact from a rock perhaps a half-mile across or larger happens on 100-million-year timescales.”
Yet astronomers hope to know if a sizable space rock is headed our way, years in advance.
“You need to know what’s coming, when it’s coming, and how hard it’s going to hit,” Eric Christensen, director of the asteroid-seeking Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, told Mashable.
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Detects Intriguing Organic Matter in Rock
The rover’s Sherloc instrument investigated the rock. (Sherloc stands for Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals.) “In its analysis of Wildcat Ridge, the Sherloc instrument registered the most abundant organic detections on the mission to date,” NASA said.
Scientists are seeing familiar signs in the analysis of Wildcat Ridge. “In the distant past, the sand, mud and salts that now make up the Wildcat Ridge sample were deposited under conditions where life could potentially have thrived,” said Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley in a statement. “The fact the organic matter was found in such a sedimentary rock — known for preserving fossils of ancient life here on Earth — is important.”
Perseverance isn’t equipped to find definitive evidence of ancient microbial life on the red planet. “The reality is the burden of proof for establishing life on another planet is very, very high,” said Farley during the press conference. For that, we need to examine Mars rocks up close and in person in Earth labs. Perseverance currently has 12 rock samples on board, including the Wildcat Ridge pieces and samples from another sedimentary delta rock called Skinner Ridge. It also collected igneous rock samples earlier in the mission that point to the impact of long-ago volcanic action in the crater. NASA is so happy with the diversity of samples collected that it’s looking into dropping some of the filled tubes off on the surface soon in preparation for the future Mars Sample Return campaign…. The mission is under development. If all goes as planned, those rocks could be here by 2033
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The hope is that in 2033, Perseverance will meet the lander “and personally deliver the samples,” the article quips. But in the meantime, Perseverance “could wander up the crater rim.” And there’s one more update about the smaller exploration vehicle that Peseverance carried to Mars.
“Its companion Ingenuity helicopter is in good health and expected to take to the air again.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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PnB Rock dead: Rapper dies aged 30 after shooting at chicken restaurant
Rapper PnB Rock shot to death amid robbery at LA Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant
PnB Rock Dead at 30 After Being Shot at Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles in LA
In tragic news, rapper PnB Rock has died aged just 30 after being shot in Los Angeles.
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The star was dining at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles with his model girlfriend Steph Sibounheuang at the time of the incident.
In a shocking viral video that has been making the rounds, the performer was targeted,
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Camila Cabello Performs Beyonce’s ‘Energy’ at Rock in Rio 2022
While Beyonce fans wait with bated breath for live performances from her ‘Renaissance’ album, other artists are placating with their own interpretations.
And Camila Cabello is the latest.
The Pop starlet took to the stage at Rock in Rio 2022 and delivered a rousing set.
During her showing,
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