February 18, 2021

The capsule containing NASA's persistence vehicle and rover Ingenuity guides itself toward the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere. Hundreds of critical events must be executed perfectly and precisely as the capsule lands safely on Mars on February 18, 2021. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

Update: The Mars Preservation vehicle with a helicopter glider in it landed safely - live broadcast

The autonomous landing of Persistence (Preservation) is supposed to be the most precise landing of a spacecraft on Mars to date
Winners of the Dan David Prize for the Future Dimension for 2021. Photo: Dan David Prize Foundation

Molecular medicine researchers, including the Israeli Prof. Zelig Ashchar, won the Dan David Prize for the Future Time Dimension

In the reasons for the award committee, it was stated that Prof. Ashhar, Dr. Steven Rosenberg and Dr. Carl John are dedicated to discovering molecular mechanisms of disease development, which can be used to develop new diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive tools
and the historians Prof. Alison Bashford, Prof. Catherine Park and Prof. Keith Wailo, winners of the Dan David Award in the Dimension of the Past, 2021. Photo by the Dan David Foundation

Three researchers of the history of medicine won the Dan David prize for the dimension of past tense

Prof. Alison Bashford, Prof. Catherine Park and Prof. Keith Wailo shared the prize worth one million dollars after, according to the judges, they illuminated the study of the past in a new light - each in their own field.