NASA will attempt to land its newest Mars Rover, Perseverance, on Thursday -- and it won’t be easy. AdThe day is starting dry, but light snow will develop from south to north by late morning/early afternoon, and continue into Thursday evening. The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Michigan has risen to 577,203 as of Wednesday, including 15,188 deaths, state officials report. Michigan’s 7-day moving average for daily cases was 898 on Tuesday -- the lowest since October. The state also reports “active cases,” which were listed at 43,000 on Tuesday -- near the lowest it’s been since October.

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (CNN) - NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun. He was the first the theorize solar wind, the flow of charged gases from the sun, present in most of the solar system. WISPR has returned images of the solar wind streaming out from the sun from its first pass in November. The mission's objectives include "tracing the flow of energy that heats and accelerates the sun's corona and solar wind, determining the structure and dynamics of the plasma and magnetic fields at the sources of the solar wind and explore mechanisms that accelerate and transport energetic particles."