THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2021 A3
TODAY
Mars
DEAR ABBY
Today is Monday, Feb. 8, the 39th
day of 2021. There are 326 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On Feb. 8, 1952, Queen Eliza-
beth II proclaimed her accession
to the British throne following
the death of her father, King
George VI.
In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots
was beheaded at Fotheringhay
Castle in England after she was
implicated in a plot to murder
her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1693, a charter was granted
for the College of William and
Mary in Williamsburg in the Vir-
ginia Colony.
In 1831, Rebecca Lee Crumpler,
the first Black woman to earn
a medical degree in the United
States, was born in Delaware.
In 1910, the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica was incorporated.
In 1922, President Warren G.
Harding had a radio installed in
the White House.
In 1924, the first execution by
gas in the United States took
place at the Nevada State Prison
in Carson City as Gee Jon, a
Chinese immigrant convicted of
murder, was put to death.
In 1960, work began on the Hol-
lywood Walk of Fame, located
on Hollywood Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles.
In 1971, NASDAQ, the world9s
first electronic stock exchange,
held its first trading day.
In 1973, Senate leaders named
seven members of a select
committee to investigate the
Watergate scandal, including
its chairman, Sen. Sam J. Ervin,
D-N.C.
In 1989, 144 people were killed
when an American-chartered
Boeing 707 filled with Italian
tourists slammed into a fog-cov-
ered mountain in the Azores.
In 2007, model, actor and
tabloid sensation Anna Nicole
Smith died in Hollywood, Flor-
ida, at age 39 of an accidental
drug overdose.
In 2010, Michael Jackson9s
personal physician, Dr. Conrad
Murray, pleaded not guilty to
involuntary manslaughter in the
death of the pop superstar in Los
Angeles Superior Court. (Mur-
ray was convicted in 2011 and
served two years in prison.)
Ten years ago: Wael Ghonim,
a 30-year-old Google executive
who9d helped ignite Egypt9s
uprising, appeared before pro-
testers in Cairo9s Tahrir Square
for the first time after being
released from detention; he told
them, <We won9t give up.=
Five years ago: President
Barack Obama asked Congress
for more than $1.8 billion in
emergency funding to fight the
Zika virus and the mosquitoes
that were spreading it in the
United States and abroad, but
said <there shouldn9t be a panic
on this.= Villanova was No. 1
in The Associated Press men9s
college basketball poll for the
first time.
One year ago: The U.S. Embassy
in Beijing said a 60-year-old U.S.
citizen who9d been diagnosed
with the coronavirus had died
on Feb. 5 in Wuhan; it was appar-
ently the first American fatality
from the virus. A soldier who was
angry about a land dispute be-
gan a 16-hour shooting rampage
in northeastern Thailand, killing
at least 29 people and wounding
dozens more before being shot
and killed by police and soldiers
at a shopping mall.
Today’s Birthdays: Compos-
er-conductor John Williams
is 89. Broadcast journalist Ted
Koppel is 81. Actor Nick Nolte is
80. Comedian Robert Klein is 79.
Actor-rock musician Creed Brat-
ton is 78. Singer Ron Tyson is 73.
Actor Brooke Adams is 72. Actor
Mary Steenburgen is 68. Author
John Grisham is 66. Retired NBA
All-Star and College Basketball
Hall of Famer Marques Johnson
is 65. Actor Henry Czerny is 62.
The former president of the Phil-
ippines, Benigno Aquino III, is 61.
Rock singer Vince Neil (Motley
Crue) is 60. Former Environmen-
tal Protection Agency adminis-
trator Lisa P. Jackson is 59. Movie
producer Toby Emmerich is 58.
Actor Missy Yager is 53. Actor
Mary McCormack is 52. Basket-
ball Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourn-
ing is 51. Actor Susan Misner is
50. Dance musician Guy-Manuel
de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk)
is 47. Actor Seth Green is 47.
Actor Joshua Morrow is 47. Rock
musician Phoenix (Linkin Park) is
44. Actor William Jackson Harp-
er is 41. Actor Jim Parrack is 40.
Folk singer-musician Joey Ryan
(Milk Carton Kids) is 39. Actor-co-
median Cecily Strong is 37. Rock
musician Jeremy Davis is 36. Hip-
hop artist Anderson.Paak is 35.
Actor Ryan Pinkston is 33. NBA
star Klay Thompson is 31. Profes-
sional surfer Bethany Hamilton is
31. Actor Karle Warren is 29.
— Associated Press
Write to Dear Abby online at dearabby.com
or by mail at P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Dear Abby: My husband
died 11 months ago, and I
thought I was ready to date.
I dated a guy I’ll call Ken for
six months, but things went
south because it felt weird.
My question is, is it normal
for a 57-year-old man to still
be living with his mom?
Abby, Ken’s mom said bad
things in front of me. She
told her son that if he’s go-
ing to have sex with me, he
might as well live with me.
(We never had sex.) Another
time she didn’t want me to
wear shorts, hold Ken’s hand
or even sit with him at their
house. Why? Do I need help?
— Young-ish Widow in Illinois
Dear Widow: A single man
living with his mom is un-
usual, but not necessarily
abnormal. Ken’s mother’s be-
havior, however, was not nor-
mal or acceptable. The extent
to which this man’s mother
controls his dating life is over
the top.
Apparently, she perceives
you as a threat, and she
doesn’t want to “lose” her
57-year-old son. You don’t
need help; SHE does. So does
Ken, who appears to be her
hostage. The tie that binds
him to her may be emotional
or financial, or those apron
strings would have been sev-
ered decades ago.
Dear Abby: My friend and
I are planning a road trip. We
live in different parts of the
country, so he’ll be flying to
my city, where we will start
the trip. We plan to split the
cost of car rental, gas and ho-
tels. However, I was assuming
that he would pay his own
airfare, and he was assuming
that we would split it like ev-
erything else.
What’s normal in situa-
tions like this? Is it normal to
pay one’s own airfare and ex-
pect costs to even out in the
future when the other person
flies to you? Or is it normal to
split the cost each time? The
road trip isn’t at risk because
of this, but I want to set the
right precedent for future va-
cations we take together.
— Road Tripping in Iowa
Dear Road Tripping: This
is something you need to dis-
cuss further with your friend.
Do you consider his getting
there a part of your shared
vacation, or do you feel your
responsibility begins when he
arrives? There are no hard-
and-fast rules about this, and
frankly, I think it depends
upon your financial situa-
tions.
Dear Abby: My husband
passed away unexpectedly.
It was and is a tremendous
loss to my two daughters and
to me.
While writing my thank-
you cards to individuals who
attended his viewing and
church service, I noticed
someone had written “Mick
Jagger” as attending his view-
ing and “Rod Stewart” as at-
tending his church service. I
was floored and deeply hurt
when I realized the handwrit-
ing belonged to one of our
pallbearers — my husband’s
sister’s husband. Our teenage
daughters also saw it and told
me they thought it was disre-
spectful.
I don’t know if I should
tell my sister-in-law or let it
go. I want to ask him why he
would do such a thing. Or
am I overreacting?
— Hurt in Texas
Dear Hurt: No, you are
not overreacting. What your
brother-in-law did was, to
put it mildly, insensitive. A
funeral memorial book is the
wrong place to attempt a bad
joke. By all means tell your
sister-in-law about it. And
when you do, be sure to men-
tion how it affected you and
your daughters. You all de-
serve an apology for his inap-
propriate behavior.
YOUR HOROSCOPE
By Madalyn Aslan
Continued from A1
Called Amal, or Hope in
Arabic, the Gulf nation’s space-
craft is seeking an especially
high orbit — 13,500 by 27,000
miles high — all the better to
monitor the Martian weather.
China’s duo — called Tian-
wen-1, or “Quest for Heavenly
Truth” — will remain paired in
orbit until May, when the rover
separates to descend to the
dusty, ruddy surface. If all goes
well, it will be only the second
country to land successfully on
the red planet.
The U.S. rover Perseverance,
by contrast, will dive in straight
away for a harrowing sky-crane
touchdown similar to the Curi-
osity rover’s grand Martian en-
trance in 2012. The odds are in
NASA’s favor: It’s nailed eight
of its nine attempted Mars
landings.
Despite their differences —
the 1-ton Perseverance is larger
and more elaborate than the
Tianwen-1 rover — both will
prowl for signs of ancient mi-
croscopic life.
Perseverance’s $3 billion
mission is the first leg in a
U.S.-European effort to bring
Mars samples to Earth in the
next decade.
“To say we’re pumped about
it, well that would be a huge
understatement,” said Lori
Glaze, NASA’s planetary sci-
ence director.
Perseverance is aiming for
an ancient river delta that
seems a logical spot for once
harboring life. This landing
zone in Jezero Crater is so
treacherous that NASA nixed it
for Curiosity, but so tantalizing
that scientists are keen to get
hold of its rocks.
“When the scientists take a
look at a site like Jezero Crater,
they see the promise, right?”
said Al Chen, who’s in charge
of the entry, descent and land-
ing team at NASA’s Jet Propul-
sion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California. “When I look at
Jezero, I see danger. There’s
danger everywhere.”
Steep cliffs, deep pits and
fields of rocks could cripple or
doom Perseverance, following
its seven-minute atmospheric
plunge. With an 11 1/2-minute
NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP
This illustration provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover, bottom,
landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and
exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18.
communication lag each way,
the rover will be on its own,
unable to rely on flight con-
trollers. Amal and Tianwen-1
will also need to operate auton-
omously while maneuvering
into orbit.
Until Perseverance, NASA
sought out flat, boring terrain
on which to land — “one giant
parking lot,” Chen said. That’s
what China’s Tianwen-1 rover
will be shooting for in Mars’
Utopia Planitia.
NASA is upping its game
thanks to new navigation tech-
nology designed to guide the
rover to a safe spot. The space-
craft also has a slew of cameras
and microphones to capture
the sights and sounds of de-
scent and landing, a Martian
first.
Faster than previous Mars
vehicles but still moving at a
glacial pace, the six-wheeled
Perseverance will drive across
Jezero, collecting core samples
of the most enticing rocks and
gravel. The rover will set the
samples aside for retrieval by a
fetch rover launching in 2026.
Under an elaborate plan still
being worked out by NASA
and the European Space
Agency, the geologic treasure
would arrive on Earth in the
early 2030s. Scientists contend
it’s the only way to ascertain
whether life flourished on a
wet, watery Mars 3 billion to 4
billion years ago.
NASA’s science mission
chief, Thomas Zurbuchen,
considers it “one of the hardest
things ever done by humanity
and certainly in space science.”
The U.S. is still the only
country to successfully land on
Mars, beginning with the 1976
Vikings. Two spacecraft are
still active on the surface: Curi-
osity and InSight.
Smashed Russian and Euro-
pean spacecraft litter the Mar-
tian landscape, meanwhile,
along with NASA’s failed Mars
Polar Lander from 1999.
Getting into orbit around
Mars is less complicated, but
still no easy matter, with about
a dozen spacecraft falling
short. Mars fly-bys were the
rage in the 1960s and most
failed; NASA’s Mariner 4 was
the first to succeed in 1965.
Six spacecraft currently are
operating around Mars: three
from the U.S., two from Eu-
rope and one from India. The
UAE hopes to make it seven
with its $200-plus million mis-
sion.
The UAE is especially proud
that Amal was designed and
built by its own citizens, who
partnered with the University
of Colorado at Boulder and
other U.S. institutions, not sim-
ply purchased from abroad. Its
arrival at Mars coincides with
this year’s 50th anniversary of
the country’s founding.
“Starting off the year with
this milestone is something
very important for the people”
of the UAE, said Sharaf.
China, hasn’t divulged much
in advance. Even the space-
craft’s exact arrival time on
Wednesday has yet to be an-
nounced.
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