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hello sunshine hope you had an awesome
weekend here's a quick thought to start
your Monday motivation off right while
you are chasing your dreams and your
goals and your happiness stop being
concerned about people who aren't
concerned about you will the haters and
doubters be around no doubt but if you
put those blinders on and stay focused
on your purpose and on the people who
accept you nothing can stop you I'm Coy
wire this is CNN 10 and we start today
in Japan where the country with the
world's third largest economy is now
fully in the space race after becoming
the latest Nation to land a spacecraft
on the moon the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency or jaxa says its
uncrewed robotic Explorer called slim
which stands for the smart Lander for
investigating the Moon made a soft
landing on the lunar surface but the
agency says the mission may end earlier
than expected because the spacecraft
solar cell is not producing enough
electricity the Lander's battery power
is so limited that jaxa believes it
might only last for several hours as the
agency continues to examine the latest
data on the cause of the Lander solar
cell issue space officials believe slim
is actually not pointing in the correct
direction the Japanese space agency
however still declared this Mission a
minimum success due to the fact that
this was a precise soft lunar Landing
Japan is now the fifth nation in history
to land on the moon joining the United
States China India in the former Soviet
Union Japan is looking to make even more
strides in the Great Space Race as
Japanese astronauts may be teaming up
with NASA's Artemis program on a mission
that looks to land the first woman and
first person of color on the moon our
space and defense correspondent Kristen
fiser has
more well the good news is that Japan's
Moon sniper lunar lander has touchdown
on the surface of the Moon but there's a
problem and the problem is that it's
having a tough time generating power
there's an issue with one of the lunar
Landers solar cells and so Japan space
agency jaxa is working right now
troubleshooting they're trying to fix it
and there is a chance that it could be
fixed it may just have we may just have
to wait until the sun actually moves
position and can reach those solar cells
um but it's just too soon to say we're
going to have to wait um but the good
news is that Japan was able to pull off
this very complex Mission uh I mean just
Landing a spacecraft on the moon is
something that only four other countries
have been able to do only two others in
this Century China and India even the
United States hasn't been able to do it
um or haven't even really tried since
the end of the Apollo program back in
1972 so a big step forward for Japan and
its space agency uh but still too soon
to say if this mission is fully a
success that's going to take a bit of
time uh the other thing that's too soon
to determine is if this lunar lander is
going to live up to its name is the moon
sniper because it was going for a really
precise Target for our next story we
take you just outside of Hong Kong where
a photographer found a way to showcase
the beauty of nature that's often
concealed during the day our Christy L
Stout strapped a flashlight to her head
and went on a nighttime Trek in the
wilderness to hunt for Critters that
coexist in the midst of the massive City
nearby every night Hong Kong's iconic
Skyline stars in its own show a
spectacle of lasers and steel in one of
the most densely populated places on
Earth less than 20 km away another
curtain opens to reveal a natural world
often forgotten in the dark we're in
shingun Country Park in the daytime this
is an area very popular for hikers but
at night time that's when the creatures
come
out what are you hoping it will find
tonight I'm hoping to find a couple of
snakes and any other aquatic
creatures leading our nocturnal Safari
Hong Kong British educator and
photographer Lawrence Hilton in the
darkness of night Hilton has captured
images of birds like this qu iCal
collared scops owl insects like the
Atlas Moth and snakes like this wh
lipped pit viper my favorite are snakes
and spiders however I try and go for
anything that I can get my camera up
against Hilton says he photographs the
animals as he encounters them with
minimal impact to them or the
environment no they won come
out that's okay so we're on our way to
to the stream yeah we are and looking
for snakes along the
way wandering past water buffalo at rest
we encounter warty noes at play oh yes
right there two of them a huntsman
spider shows off its mysterious Beauty
as a monkey watches from above it takes
patience and a passion for every
creature big and
small what your step Trucking in the
dark is not easy
you have to watch your
feet and always keep your eyes open we
have relatively pristine stream ways
which is quite rare for Hong Kong also
it's far away enough from civilization
that Wildlife can live without too much
disturbance from us Hong Kong is home to
an astonishing array of wildlife with
many creatures emerging only at night
some 40% of the territory is protected
protected Parkland but here and around
the world poaching and urbanization are
destroying safe havens we have lost on
average almost
70% of our Wildlife populations uh since
the
1970 and that by itself tells you we are
not doing too well protecting the planet
globally at the end of this Century it's
estimated up to 33 million hectares of
natural habitat will be lost as a result
of urban development that's more than
the size of the US state of New Mexico
Lauren says his mission is to promote
conservation through
photography we have a lot of trackers
who visit this area and fear of snakes
and fear the unknown makes people do
silly things and hopefully someday in
the future everyone can just enjoy
nature nearing midnight We spotle R rare
fotsing wolf snake nonvenomous
nocturnal and extremely rare in Hong
Kong bearing witness to the richness of
nature in the backyard of a global
Metropolis
byebye Pop Quiz Hot Shot which of these
legendary artists was a feature member
of the group of musicians and actors
known as The Rat Pack Tony Bennett Bing
Crosby Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley
hubba hubba
congrats if you said Frank Sina the
leader of this group of entertainers
that appeared on stage and in films in
the 1950s and
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60s all right squeak Hearts I don't mean
to be cheesy but today's story getting a
10 out of 10 is pretty rat markable
Genie Mo takes us to Chicago where a
whole in the ground is raising a whole
lot of questions move over New York with
your bagel loing rats a long gone
Chicago rat is making a deep impression
thanks to artist winow domain they're
starting to call me rat hole guy so in
early January a friend told Winslow
about the rat imprint on Chicago's north
side his reaction immediate laughter he
ratted out the Rat Hole by posting this
photo and now people are making
pilgrimages to the imprint posing
leaving money and flowers even a fake
mouse residents say the Rat Hole has
been around for more than 20 years but
is it a rat okay it's probably a
squirrel it has like the wide hips and
the long claws of a squirrel whatever it
was one state representative is touting
it is the Jewel of the 11th District the
Chicago Rapper but everyone is wondering
did he um get out optimists say you can
see Pop Prince leading away from the the
Splat hole it's become the Wally coyote
of Chicago let's let the leader of the
Rat Pack salute the city's latest
tourist
attraction my kind of
town all right this Rat Hole is credited
with bringing the whole Community
together Winslow domain who spoke with
Genie there posted a photo on Saturday
showing a wedding proposal that happened
at the rat ho thanks to everyone who
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