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FORMER NASA astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean. Sullivan was also the first American woman to com-plete a spacewalk over 36 years ago. Now, she’s the first human to have done both.

Sullivan was a part of a roughly 5-hour expedition this week that went 10,925 meters below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. She was joined by pilot Victor Vescovo of Caladan Oceanic, a private company dedicated to the advancement of marine technology.

After they reached the surface, EYOS Expeditions, which organized the mission, coordinated a call between the

International Space Station and the DSSV Pressure Drop, the launching point for the DSV Limiting Factor.

“As a hybrid oceanographer and astronaut this was an extraordinary day, a once in a lifetime day, seeing the moon-scape of the Challenger Deep and then comparing notes with my colleagues on the ISS about our remarkable reusable inner-space, outer-spacecraft,” Sul-livan said in a statement.

Vescovo gave a shoutout to his partner on Twitter after becom-ing the first human to walk in space and descend to the deep-est point in the ocean.

Only eight people have ever reached Challenger Deep, including “Titanic” director

James Cameron. According to CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood, 574 people from over 40 nations have gone to space.

Sullivan is a veteran of three space shuttle flights and was part of the first astronaut groups to include women. In 1984, she became the first American woman to walk in space. She reflected about another rare sight following her latest mile-stone.

“If you’re looking for that absolutely glorious picture postcard view, space wins it every time. But if you want to be dazzled beyond anything you can imagine about the variety and abundance of life on Earth, go into the sea,” she said.

(SD-Agencies)

Kathy Sullivan becomes �rst person to reach ocean’s deepest point

Kathy Sullivan SD-Agencies

Café up a treeItalians nervous about social distancing while eating out are being offered the perfect solution by a couple in Umbria who have opened a restaurant in a tree. People looking for an undisturbed meal have been queuing to climb 15 feet to a wooden platform in the branches of a walnut tree at the Poggio Brico farm near Todi. Diners call in orders to the kitchen via walkie talkie, while courses are delivered by a pulley system. Xinhua

WITH social distancing regu-lations still in place to prevent further spread of the Covid-19, artists in Cologne and Bonn, Germany have taken it upon themselves to find an innova-tive way to exhibit works.

Around 300 works of art by 50 artists are on display at a drive-through car park gallery in Cologne’s Bonn airport. These works include sculptures, paintings and a sound and light show to guide visitors through the pieces which have been mounted on airport luggage trolleys.

Visitors embraced the experi-ence, describing it as “unusual” and “completely different.”

After a six-week lockdown, Germany recently reopened

its museums and galleries, but face masks are compulsory and physical distancing rules must be observed. More and more

people are turning to drive-throughs to adhere to social distancing guidelines.

(SD-Agencies)

Drive-through art gallery set up at airport

POLICE are hunting a man-eating crocodile after it was spotted by terrified locals stalking the waters of a Span-ish river.

The search is taking place along a 12-mile stretch of the River Duoro near the city of Valladolid after multiple sight-ings over the past two days.

It’s believed to be a Nile crocodile which are normally found in Africa and can grow to up to 20 feet in length and weigh 725kg.

The aggressive predators have been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people after tar-geting them on river banks.

They can also take down adult zebras and even a small hippopotamus.

The one Spanish cops are hunting is said to be around five feet long and weighing around 249kg.

Officials fear it was either dumped by someone keeping it as an exotic pet or escaped from their care.

The search is focusing on a stretch of the river between the towns of Simancas and Tordesillas and is being led by the Spanish Civil Guard’s Nature Protection Service.

Drones are also being used and divers may also be called in to help with the hunt.

Local reports say two croc nests have already been found alongside the remains of fish with distinctive bite marks.

Although the search is a genuine, local cops were among those fooled into sharing fake footage of the crocodile.

They posted the footage alongside a message which read: “Just in case anyone had any doubts, this is the video we’ve been sent where you can see the crocodile swimming.”

(SD-Agencies)

Police scour for man-eating croc

Artworks display at a drive-through car park gallery. SD-Agencies

A ROMAN city in Italy has been mapped in incred-ible detail without any digging using a ground-penetrating radar strapped to a quad bike recently.

Falerii Novi is over 2,000 years old but today is mostly underground, leaving many of its ancient buildings undiscov-ered — until now.

New scans of the site capture a bath house, theater, shops and even the city’s entire plumbing system in unprecedented detail for the first time.

Archaeologists say ground-penetrating radar (GPR) tools could revolutionize our under-standing of ancient settle-ments.

The technology allows researchers to survey vast regions trapped beneath Earth’s surface without having to carry out time-consuming excava-tions.

Team member Professor Martin Millett said: “This type of survey could transform the way archaeologists investigate urban sites.”

The technology was used at Falerii Novi, a walled city span-ning 75 acres about 30 miles (50 km) north of Rome.

Falerii Novi was founded in 241 BC during the time of the Roman Republic and was inhabited until around 700 AD in the early Middle Ages.

The city, not quite half the size of ancient Pompeii, had previ-ously been partially excavated but mostly remained buried.

With a population of per-haps 3,000 people, it boasted an unexpectedly elaborate public bath complex and market building, at least 60 large houses and a rectangular temple with columns near the city’s south gate.

(SD-Agencies)

Ancient Roman city excavated