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A warning that dangerous weather phenomena are on the way was sent to mobile phones in the Achaia area on Wednesday from the 112 emergency number.

The message urged them to minimize travel and take protective measures due to strong rain and gale-force winds that are expected in the area from Wednesday afternoon until Thursday night. [AMNA]

The USA's Perseverance rover has successfully landed on Mars with a helicopter called Ingenuity strapped to its belly. The Mars 2020 mission is seen as a first step towards bringing samples of Martian rock back to Earth.

Winter will be returning to Greece briefly, albeit with a vengeance, next week, the national weather service said in an emergency bulletin Thursday.

Salvage crews were waiting for the rough weather to abate before retrieving a speed boat that partially sank in the port of Nafplio, southern Greece, on Saturday due to powerful winds that swept across the southwestern Aegean and the Saronic Gulf.
According to Nafplio port authorities, the area was battered by winds of 9 to 10 on the Beaufort scale.

The US Space Agency (NASA) has announced a panoramic video from Mars, made on the red planet by Curiosity, the agency said on its official site.

Nasa's Curiosity rover, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), is celebrating 2,000 martian days (sols) investigating Gale Crater on the Red Planet. In that time, the robot has made some remarkable observations.

An operation was under way on Thursday morning to tow the Panagia Agiasou passenger ferry back to safety after it broke away from its moorings at Piraeus Port in gale-force winds overnight.

Winds were still strong in the areas, hampering the operation, though meteorologists have said that conditions will ease later in the day.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back a pair of very curious photos since March that have resurfaced in conspiracy circles as evidence of a “genuine spaceship” and “thigh bones” visible on Mars.

Freezing temperatures, snow, rain and gale-force winds have made life even more difficult for tens of thousands of migrants and refugees scattered at camps across the country.

Curiosity Mars rover is currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, since 2012. The NASA space vehicle recently sent over some amazingly beautiful pictures of a “blue sunset” from the planet.

The photos were received on the 15th of April and depict the sun being lost over the horizon of the red planet.