NASA’s Curiosity rover Finds Water in Mars

The rover Curiosity has discovered water in fine-grained soil on the surface of Mars, NASA confirmed it on Thursday 26^th of September. Each cubic foot of Martian soil contains about two points of liquid water, though the molecules are bound to other minerals in the soil. 

Curiosity first landed on the surface of Mars on August 06.2012. Curiosity is the first rover on Mars to carry equipment for gathering and processing samples of rock and soil.

Kandy Esala Perahara 2013, Thai and Japanese Princesses viewed the final Randoli Perahara of the Kandy Esala Perhara.

The period July-August is the Esala Perahera season in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese term ‘perahera’ means a train of musicians, dancers, acrobats and other performers usually accompanied by a number of caparisoned elephants parading the streets in celebration of a religious or secular person or event. 

During this period Esala Peraheras are held in many Buddhist places of worship around the country. Among these the annual Esala Perahera in Kandy occupies the foremost place because the Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, the palladium of the Sinhalese kingdom that was, is located in that city, which was its last capital.