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Nasa has released a stunning image from Mars showing an area covered by a sea of "blue" sand dunes.

The picture shows the sand dunes covering the planet's northern polar cap, where temperatures can reach as low as -150C (-238F).

Nasa says the sand dunes actually cover an area the size of Texas, the second largest US state, which has an area of about 695,662 km²

There's something missing from a new wave of bars opening around the world: Alcohol.

The launch at Boca Chica, Texas, was streamed live by SpaceX

Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said on March 2, making it the largest state to no longer require one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

President Joe Biden heard firsthand from Texans clobbered by this month's brutal winter weather on Feb. 26 and pledged to stick with them "for the long haul" as he made his first trip to a major disaster area since he took office.

Judge Tipton made the decision early this morning Central European Time and it will be valid indefinitely, the New York Post reported.

Over 7.9 million people in Texas still had issues with their water supply as of Feb. 22 evening, authorities told Reuters, after a record-breaking freeze knocked out power stations last week.

Frustrated Texans queued for hours for safe drinking water on Feb. 19, after an unprecedented and deadly "polar plunge" burst pipes and left millions in the U.S. state shivering without power or clean water for days.

Many of the millions of Texans who lost power for days after a deadly winter blast overwhelmed the electric grid now have it back, but the crisis was far from over in parts of the South with many people lacking safe drinking water.

Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America had better get better at dealing with it, experts said Wednesday as Texas and other states battled winter storms that blew past the worst-case planning of utilities, governments and millions of shivering citizens.