Merge 104.8 | 14 July 2020
The Emirates Space Agency and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center have said that the UAE Mars Hope Probe mission has been postponed to Friday due to weather conditions in Japan. Built by the UAE, the mission plans to orbit Mars and study the dynamics of the martian atmosphere and its interaction with outer space and the solar wind. This will be the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.
Movie star Idris Elba has said having coronavirus had a “traumatic” impact on him mentally. He tested positive for COVID-19 along with his wife early in the outbreak. He says he is now “fully recovered” and feeling “lucky to be alive. he said that mentally it hit him very bad, because at the time not much was known about it.
Tina Turner has come out of retirement to work with Kygo for a remix of her classic song ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’ Previously she said she’s happily retired and has no plans to get back to singing and performing. Now it seems Kygo has managed to tempt her out of retirement with the track becoming available on Friday.