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Crescent Moon Mount now available in the FFXIV Online Store – Destructoid

Mounts are always a popular item in Final Fantasy XIV, whether they are rewarded for in-game content or purchased for real money in the Online Store. The latest addition to the store, the Crescent Moon Mount, is a particularly awaited one.  We’ve known that this mount has been coming for a while and especially attentive players have noticed that it’s been included in the FFXIVCollect database for a few months. There had been speculation about whether this item would come in the form of a Seasonal Event reward, but…

Odysseus moon lander snaps final image of a crescent Earth before dying

In a poignant moment captured amid the vastness of space, the Odysseus moon lander, operated by Intuitive Machines, sent back its final transmission before succumbing to the lunar night. With one of its legs askew during landing and power lost, the spacecraft left us with a lasting and wondrous image — a snapshot of Earth seen as a distant crescent shining against the grey expanse of the lunar horizon.The image, received on February 22nd but shared by Intuitive Machines on X on February 29th, serves as a reminder of…

Moon Knight #30 Preview: Crescent Crusader’s Curtain Call?

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: moon knightWitness the nail-biting finale in Moon Knight #30: Will it be victory or valhalla for our lunar vigilante?Published Sun, 10 Dec 2023 17:26:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary "Moon Knight #30" brings a potential end to the hero's saga on December 13th. Titled "Knight's End," Moon Knight faces the Black Spectre's annihilation plans. Marvel teases a life-or-death battle for Moon Knight with no hope left for resurrection. LOLtron…

Climate Change Has Worsened Drought in the Fertile Crescent

CLIMATEWIRE | The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history — and climate change has made it worse. Rising temperatures, driven by human greenhouse gas emissions, are the primary driver of the ongoing drought in parts of Syria, Iraq and Iran, according to a new analysis from the science consortium World Weather Attribution, which investigates the links between extreme weather events and climate change. Researchers found that the heat made the drought 25 times more…

Stargazing delight! Mars, Venus, and Mercury to align with the crescent Moon tonight

Get ready for an extraordinary celestial treat tonight as the night sky unveils a mesmerising gathering of celestial bodies shortly after sunset. Despite hazy skies caused by Canadian wildfires in some parts of North America, the moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all set to grace the heavens with their dazzling performance.Gathering of PlanetsRight after sunset, cast your gaze to the western sky where you'll find a faint sliver of a two-day-old crescent moon, captivatingly low on the horizon. Accompanying this celestial…

The Return Of Crescent & Io To Marvel Comics In 2023

| Crescent and Io are two Korean Marvel Comics characters, originally appearing in the First Fight comic books, then in Greg Pak and Gang Hyuk Lim 's War Of The Realms crossover event book New Agents Of Atlas, and since then for Atlantis Attacks, Future Fight Firsts and the Death Of Doctor Strange: White Fox. But now they will be getting their own series as part of the Marvel's Voices: Infinity webtoon-style stories starting in January 2023. Crescent is really Dan Bi, he daughter of an antique shop owner, who found an…

Ancient Genes Reveal Early Farmers’ Origins as More Complicated Than We Thought

Once thought to have originated and spread culturally from a single population in what's now the Middle East, farming drastically changed our world and continues to do so to this day, for both better and worse.  But ancient genomes suggest farming's beginning was far more complicated than a simple spread and adoption of a new culture and technology.The genomes of 15 newly sequenced humans who lived during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene (from around 10,000 to 7,000 years ago) along with 10 previously sequenced…