They looked just like the ones we saw  also in colour  after NASA's Viking spacecraft did the same trip in 1976. Images taken by NASA's Perseverance, left, and by the Viking spacecraft in 1976, rightThat was, now I come to think of it, the most extraordinary year, in terms of technological advances, of any in human history. So was Moderna. There were times that summer when parts of our traditionally green and pleasant land did, indeed, look more like the surface of Mars: arid and monochrome. Last week, sterling climbed to $1.40 against the U.S. currency for the first time in almost three years: and it has risen more than 3 per cent against the euro since the start of 2021.
Eight years after the switched to US dollars in the wake of the mighty dollar.
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Eight years after the switched to US dollars in the wake of the mighty dollar .
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