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past and present
liftoff together as we get off the
ground with a story about flight
you know what that means flight days are
awesome I'm Carl Azuz for CNN 10.
right now nasa has several active
missions to mars
orbiting the planet observing the planet
roving the planet
the most recent arrival is the 2.7
billion
perseverance mission it's got a drone
helicopter on board that's carrying a
piece of human history
first the helicopter it's called
ingenuity it's about two and a half feet
tall
weighs four pounds and cost 23 million
dollars to develop
it's not carrying any scientific
instruments ingenuity's purpose is to
see if powered helicopter flight is
possible on the red planet
and nasa says it won't do that until at
least april 8th
because the chopper has to undergo a
series of tests before it can try to
lift off
if that works though besides making
history the drone is also carrying it
it's got a tiny piece of the right flyer
aboard this is the first
powered and controlled airplane that
people ever built
in 1903 orville and wilbur wright flew
four separate flights on flyer one near
kitty hawk north carolina
in contrast to the small ingenuity drone
the right flyer had a wingspan of more
than 40 feet and a length of more than
21 feet
it was built from wood canvas aluminum
steel and iron and it weighed
605 pounds as a sort of tribute to that
flightscientists took a bit of fabric that
covered the right flyers wings
a small piece the size of a postage
stamp and attached it to a cable
underneath the ingenuity drone
solar panel it's not the first time nasa
has done this for a space flight
in 1969 a piece of the right flyer's
wing fabric
and a splinter of wood from the historic
aircraft was traveling aboard the apollo
11 mission
when it flew to the moon and back back
on solid but
sudden ground many people in the eastern
australian state of new south wales are
looking forward to a partly cloudy
weekend forecast
the weather systems that brought
tremendous rain and record-breaking
floods to the state have moved into the
tasman sea
but the threat hasn't gone away for some
communities as the high waters continue
to flow through river systems
and keep certain areas flooded for the
time being australia is no stranger to
severe weatherbut this week's flooding sent spiders
scurrying into homes
snakes slithering into trees and
waterfalls emerging in historic and dry
landscapes
hey carl this is one of my favorite
parts of the week getting to research
some of the most beautiful and
interesting places around the world
to take you and our friends here at cnn
10. so for today's virtual field trip
i am taking you all the way to the land
down under
to the spiritual center of australia
welcome to uluru it's known around the
world
for its ever-changing red hues against
the backdrop
of australia's central desert a desert
which is usually extremely dry
but this week after heavy rains poured
throughout northern australia for nearly
a week
this incredible and rare footage emerged
of waterfalls at uluru
stacy mcgregor who works for a local
tour company posted these
images to her facebook and told cnn that
she's lived
and worked in uluru for over four years
and she's never
seen waterfalls or rain like this the
area typically receives around 13 inches
of rainfall
in an average year but recorded nearly
two incheson sunday and monday of this week alone
according to the australian bureau
of meteorology uluru is one of the
unesco world heritage sites
standing at 1142 feet high it's
taller than the eiffel tower for decades
people around the globe would come here
to climb this incredible
natural structure but this is no easy
hikeweather here is punishingly hot and the
landscape is often quite windy and
slippery at least 35 people have died
heresince climbing started in the 1950s but
only a lucky few people have been able
to visit uluru recently
as tourists have been prohibited from
actually climbing the cigarette site
since 2019 the anongu aboriginal people
part of the native population of
australia
said it was being destroyed by taurus
permanently wearing down its surface
and polluting nearby waterholes here's
to hopingthe glory of uluru will be preserved for
generations to come
back to you carl
10 second trivia according to the united
nations31 of the earth's land area is covered
by whatforests deserts lakes or ice
though deserts cover about a third of
the land forests cover
just under that at 31
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deforestation and reforestation are next
todaythe major cause of forest reduction in
south america is the intentional
clearing of land this can be done for
woodto expand cities or road projects or to
develop more farmland
the atlantic forest which runs from
northeast brazil down the country's east
coast
into paraguay and argentina covers only
a fraction of the land it once had
but a conservationist is working to
reconnect some of its fragments
what i really love about being in a
forest
is seeing the size of the change we can
really make
is it really possible to bring out that
forest back
lori cullen has dedicated his life to
restoring the atlantic forest in brazil
after witnessing the destruction of his
birthplace
the western sao paulo atlantic forest
range
used to be a very you know green
continuous
beautiful landscape what used to be
one hundred percent of forest cover now
is only two percent
decades of deforestation have led to a
significant reduction of one of the
world's most diverse habitats
all that remains of the forest are
isolated fragments
this means many species are now under
threat as they no longer have the
ability to disperse
the wildlife especially you know jaguars
pumaocelots they are very isolated in small
forest patches
they cannot see each other that's when
we start having
problems of inbreeding depression that
can kill
the local population in a very short
term
cullen and his team use a targeted
approach to forest restoration
taking what's left of the fragments and
planting in corridors
these proposed corridors aim to connect
the fragments
and act almost like an express highway
for local species
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the dream app is putting priorities
where the forest should really be
to make sure we put the right corridors
in the right places
to date cullen and his team have
restored 3 000 hectares of forest
and tell us they have already seen at
least half of native species using them
including some animals at most risk of
extinction
today it's already possible to see
the lion tamarins the the families of
this little monkey
by themselves using some of the forest
quarters that
we have put back if we just keep on
going
the survival of this very endangered
species
will be okay in the long term
cullen is motivated by both the
community and climate benefits to
reforestation
but his accomplishments represent a
transformation that is as much
personal as it is philanthropic
if you give an aspiring engineer enough
pvc pipe
two-by-fours sandbags and cinder blocks
and then you let him work for a few
weeksit's amazing what he can build at least
it is if he's ben toliday
a georgia student who constructed a
thrill ride in his backyard
we don't know how much the materials
cost but we do know it works and that
his mother is proud though she says
she's looking forward to getting her
yard back
it won't be to her amusement and she
will not find it thrilling if he
dips dives turns rolls out and coasts
off to college while leaving a
construction project on track in her
yard
he may ask why wouldn't you want it but
if she's steeled in her determination
not to have her yard marred by a twisted
ventureshe may not let that train leave the
station until the coasters cleared
shout out to antilles high school today
the pirates are
watching in fort buchanan puerto rico
have a great weekend everyone. I'm Carl Azuz for CNN
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