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Volume 8, Issue 9 DailyPlanetDC.com Reporting on the Planet Daily @DailyPlanetDC March 28, 2021 FANS RALLY FOR THE SNYDERVERSE Devotees call for the his cut of the to life because that wasn’t in the restoration of Zack plan until about a year ago. With that comes the completion of his Snyder’s vision for trilogy. We’re very happy we’ve done this, but we’re very excited the DCEU about the plans we have for all the multi-dimensional DC charac- By Sanjayan Karthikeyan ters that are being developed Reporter right now.” This has led to the fans of the DC flm, and ’s take, The #ReleaseTheSnyderCut to rally on pushing the movement proved successful powers that be to “#RestoreThe- with “Zack Snyder’s Justice SnyderVerse.” The hashtag trend- League” being released, and now ed worldwide with over 1.5 mil- the new summit DC and comic- lion tweets over the course of a book movie fans seek to climb is single day on Thursday March 25, #RestoreTheSnyderVerse. 2021, which marked the fve-year Fans want the intended two anniversary of the theatrical re- sequels to Director Zack Snyder’s lease of “ v : Justice League flm exploring the Dawn of Justice.” Knightmare timeline and the war The black-and-white version of with , as well as spin-off the Snyder Cut, titled “Zack Sny- stories featuring Ben Affeck’s der’s Justice League: Justice Is Batman’s rivalry with Joe Man- Gray Edition” came to the HBO ganiello’s . Max streaming platform and was After years of campaigning by available starting midnight Pacifc signing petitions and tweeting time on Thursday March 25, their support asking for the re- 2021. lease of Zack Snyder's cut of the This past week resulted in over Justice League, it was announced three million conversations cen- on May 20, 2020 that the Snyder tered around the movement to Cut will be released after all, and restore the Snyderverse, 1.5 mil- fans were treated to the four-hour lion of which taking place on director’s cut event with “Zack Friday, March 25, 2021. However, Snyder’s Justice League” premier- this fnal number does not in- ing on Thursday March 18, 2021 clude other offcial hashtags and on HBO Max and various plat- unruly typos, so the fnal results forms around the world. The flm are subject to change and could has garnered high praise and vary from these absolute tallies. positive reactions across the “Wow, just wow,” Zack Snyder board from both fans and critics. responded over social media. In her interview released on After the release of the Snyder the Monday after the release of Cut, Hollywood has now seeming- the Snyder Cut, WarnerMedia ly learned to never say never. Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff shared What happens next all depends with Variety that they have no on the fnal reaction to the Sny- plans on continuing with the der Cut. As famously says “Snyderverse.” in the Director’s edition, “Make "I appreciate that they love your own future. Make your own Zack’s work and we are very past. It’s all right now.” The fans of thankful for his many contribu- the Snyderverse are certainly tions to DC,” Sarnoff said. "We’re taking that to heart. just so happy that he could bring as Superman in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.” Like Superman’s resurrection in the flm restored hope to the world, fans’ faith in restoring the “Snyderverse” restores hope for a better DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Photo courtesy Warner Media One fans mission to make the Daily Planet a reality Zack Bena heroes. I began collecting news by DC Comics. We hope to help tent creators can’t be paid for Daily Planet Editor-in- from role-players but found that inform the world in order to make their work. I’ve been working chronicling actual events was it a better place. 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March 28, 2021 News season four update revealed By Jahlil Rush Five more in post. Twelve being Young Justice season four, Daily Planet Reporter animated overseas. Pre-produc- “Young Justice: Phantoms.” tion is virtually done.” Young Justice premiered on In the past, Weisman provided in 2010 and the Young Justice Phantoms, the the DC fandom community an second season titled “Young upcoming fourth season to the update on the show’s pre-pro- Justice: Invasion” followed two DC animated series, has mostly duction status, saying that 24 years later. Cartoon Network completed its pre-production episodes has been fully written later on cancelled the series. The stage, said executive producer and some episodes had complet- series was revived for a third and show-runner, . ed voice recording work. season, titled “Young Justice: A fan asked Weisman via Twit- During Young Justice Cast ,” on the DC Universe ter about the status of the sea- Audio Play Performance and streaming service in 2019. son. Lucky enough for the fan, Panel in last year’s DC FanDome, Young Justice was created by Weisman responded to the tweet executive producer, Brandon Greg Weisman and Brandon Viet- saying “9 episodes in the can. Vietti, released the title card for ti. The series focuses on the sidekicks of the Justice League as they take on challenging mis- sions and battle the shadowy criminal organization known as “The Light.” Season four of Young Justice will stream on HBO Max and currently does not have a pre- miere date. All previous seasons are available to stream on the outlet. Young Justice Phantoms title card. Photo courtesy DC Entertainment

Governor Kemp signs new Georgia NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prepares for first flight elections bill into law By Kara Danvers By ballots, ban people from hand- CatCo Reporter Daily Planet Reporter ing out food and drink to voters waiting in line outside polling NASA is targeting no earlier places and halt absentee ballot than April 8 for the Ingenuity Georgia Governor Brian Kemp applications from being accept- signed a nearly 100-page elec- Mars Helicopter to make the frst ed within 11 days of an election. attempt at powered, controlled tion bill into law on Thursday The bill would expand early evening after state lawmakers in fight of an aircraft on another voting for primary and planet. Before the four-pound the House and Senate voted to elections, but not for runoffs, pass the bill earlier in the day. (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft can at- which is how Jon Ossoff and tempt its frst fight, however, The law will make several Raphael Warnock secured their changes to voting regulations in both it and its team must meet a Senate seats –– and the Democ- series of daunting milestones. the state, including requiring rats’ majority –– in January, photo ID for mail-in ballots, re- Ingenuity remains attached to breaking a decades-long streak the belly of NASA’s Perseverance ducing early voting for runoff of Democrats losing in statewide elections and banning the dis- rover, which touched down on runoff elections. Mars Feb. 18. On March 21, the tribution of food and drinks to mong highlights, the law re- people waiting in line to vote. rover deployed the guitar case- quires a photo ID in order to shaped graphite composite debris The 95-page bill contains vote absentee by mail, after dozens of proposals pitched by shield that protected Ingenuity more than 1.3 million Georgia during landing. The rover current- Republicans that would require voters used that option during stricter voter ID rules for mail-in ly is in transit to the “airfeld” the COVID-19 pandemic. where Ingenuity will attempt to fy. Once deployed, Ingenuity will have 30 Martian days, or sols, (31 Earth days) to conduct its test fight campaign. “When NASA’s Sojourner rover landed on Mars in 1997, it proved that roving the Planet was possible and completely rede- fned our approach to how we explore Mars. Similarly, we want to learn about the potential Inge- nuity has for the future of science research,” said Lori Glaze, direc- tor of the Planetary Science Divi- sion at NASA Headquarters. “Apt- ly named, Ingenuity is a technolo- gy demonstration that aims to be the frst powered fight on anoth- er world and, if successful, could further expand our horizons and broaden the scope of what is possible with Mars exploration.” An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter fying on Mars. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Flying in a controlled manner on Mars is far more diffcult than turning back. All activities are radios. This milestone also initi- images and video from the rover’s fying on Earth. The Red Planet closely coordinated, irreversible, ates the 30-sol clock during which Navigation Cameras and Mast- has signifcant gravity (about one- and dependent on each other. If time all prefight checks and fight cam-Z. From the data downlinked third that of Earth’s) but its at- there is even a hint that some- tests must take place. that frst evening after the fight, mosphere is just 1 percent as thing isn’t going as expected, we “Ingenuity is an experimental the Mars Helicopter team expect dense as Earth’s at the surface. may decide to hold off for a sol or engineering fight test – we want to be able to determine if their During Martian daytime, the plan- more until we have a better idea to see if we can fy at Mars,” said frst attempt to fy at Mars was a et’s surface receives only about what is going on.” MiMi Aung, project manager for success. half the amount of solar energy The helicopter deployment Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at JPL. On the following sol, all the that reaches Earth during its day- process will take about six sols “There are no science instru- remaining engineering data col- time, and nighttime temperatures (six days, four hours on Earth). ments onboard and no goals to lected during the fight, as well as can drop as low as minus 130 On the frst sol, the team on Earth obtain scientifc information. We some low-resolution black-and- degrees Fahrenheit (minus 90 will activate a -breaking de- are confdent that all the engi- white imagery from the heli- degrees Celsius), which can vice, releasing a locking mecha- neering data we want to obtain copter’s own Navigation Camera, freeze and crack unprotected nism that helped hold the heli- both on the surface of Mars and could be downlinked to JPL. The electrical components. copter frmly against the rover’s aloft can be done within this 30- third sol of this phase, the two To ft within the available ac- belly during launch and Mars sol window.” images taken by the helicopter’s commodations provided by the landing. The following sol, they As with deployment, the heli- high-resolution color camera Perseverance rover, the Ingenuity Bitsie Tulloch as . Photo courtesy of The CW will fre a cable-cutting pyrotech- copter and rover teams will ap- should arrive. The Mars Heli- helicopter must be small. To fy in nic device, enabling the mecha- proach the upcoming fight test copter team will use all informa- the Mars environment, it must be nized arm that holds Ingenuity to methodically. If the team misses tion available to determine when ‘Superman & Lois’ 1x05 lightweight. To survive the frigid begin rotating the helicopter out or has questions about an impor- and how to move forward with Martian nights, it must have of its horizontal position. This is tant prefight milestone, they may their next test. enough energy to power internal also when the rotorcraft will ex- take one or more sols to better “Mars is hard,” said Aung. “Our The best of heaters. The system – from the tend two of its four landing . understand the issue. If the heli- plan is to work whatever the Red performance of its rotors in rari- By Sanjayan Karthikeyan Captain Luthor (Wolé Parks) During the third sol of the de- copter survives the frst night of Planet throws at us the very same fed air to its solar panels, electri- Daily Planet Reporter returns after a two episode hia- ployment sequence, a small elec- the sequence period on the sur- way we handled every challenge cal heaters, and other compo- tus a little more about his char- tric motor will fnish rotating face of Mars, however, the team we’ve faced over the past six nents – has been tested and acter. On his earth, he was mar- Ingenuity until it latches, bringing will spend the next several sols years – together, with tenacity retested in the vacuum chambers Another week, another great ried to Lois and there is likely to the helicopter completely verti- doing everything possible to en- and a lot of hard work, and a little and test labs of NASA’s Jet episode by Superman and Lois be a lot more revealed as the cal. During the fourth sol, the fnal sure a successful fight, including Ingenuity.” Propulsion Laboratory in South- with its new chapter “Best of show progresses. two landing legs will snap into wiggling the rotor blades and ern California. Smallville.” This would be the Meanwhile, Morgan Edge’s position. On each of those four verifying the performance of the • • • “Every step we have taken last episode to air and the next (Adam Rayner) plan begins to sols, the Wide Angle Topographic inertial measurement unit, as well A Piece of History since this journey began six years episode will air on May 18, the come to light as we see what Sensor for Operations and eNgi- as testing the entire rotor system ago has been uncharted territory show will be taking a seven-week he’s been doing with the X-Kryp- neering (WATSON) imager will during a spin-up to 2,537 rpm While Ingenuity will attempt in the history of aircraft,” said hiatus due to COVID-19 con- tonite. take confrmation shots of Ingenu- (while Ingenuity’s landing gear the frst powered, controlled fight Bob Balaram, Mars Helicopter cerns, restrictions and delays. Jordan gets asked on a date ity as it incrementally unfolds into remain frmly on the surface). on another planet, the frst pow- chief engineer at JPL. “And while The episode starts with the by Sarah Kushing (Inde Navar- its fight confguration. In its fnal ered, controlled fight on Earth getting deployed to the surface media reporting a recent uptick rette), but later the two decide position, the helicopter will hang • • • took place Dec. 17, 1903, on the will be a big challenge, surviving in Superman activity globally. to remain friends as viewers see suspended at about 5 inches (13 The First Flight Test on Mars windswept dunes of Kill Devil Hill, that frst night on Mars alone, This is because Clark (Tyler that spark between them when- centimeters) over the Martian near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. without the rover protecting it Hoechlin) wants to attend the ever they talk to each other. surface. At that point, only a - Once the team is ready to at- Orville and Wilbur Wright covered and keeping it powered, will be an annual Smallville Harvest Festi- Fireman Kyle Kushing (Erik gle bolt and a couple dozen tiny tempt the frst fight, Persever- 120 feet in 12 seconds during the even bigger one.” val with Lois (Bitsie Tulloch), Valdez) expresses his struggles electrical contacts will connect ance will receive and relay to frst fight. The Wright brothers Jon (Jordan Elsass) and Jordan as he shares a really sad mo- the helicopter to Perseverance. Ingenuity the fnal fight instruc- made four fights that day, each • • • (Alex Garfn) and we can see the ment with his daughter, how On the ffth sol of deployment, the tions from JPL mission con- longer than the previous. Deploying the Helicopter excitement in Clark and how distanced she is from him since team will use the fnal opportuni- trollers. Several factors will de- A small amount of the material much the festival means to him. she was a child. ty to utilize Perseverance as a termine the precise time for the that covered one of the wings of Before Ingenuity takes its frst We also see him as a teenager, The end of the episode shows power source and charge Ingenu- fight, including modeling of local the Wright brothers’ aircraft, fight on Mars, it must be squarely played by Dylan Kingwell. the folks of Smallville coming ity’s six battery cells. wind patterns plus measurements known as the Flyer, during the in the middle of its airfeld – a 33- This episode generally deals together to honor Martha Kent “Once we cut the cord with taken by the Mars Environmental frst fight is now aboard Ingenu- by-33-foot (10-by-10-meter) patch with regret. We see Clark’s regret by labeling her trademark park Perseverance and drop those fnal Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) ity. An insulate tape was used to of Martian real estate chosen for for leaving Smallville and his bench with her name while also fve inches to the surface, we aboard Perseverance. Ingenuity wrap the small swatch of fabric its fatness and lack of obstruc- mother, not being able to spend calling her “The Best of Small- want to have our big friend drive will run its rotors to 2,537 rpm around a cable located under- tions. Once the helicopter and time with her. It Shows how ville.” The episode ends with away as quickly as possible so we and, if all fnal self-checks look neath the helicopter’s solar panel. rover teams confrm that Perse- Martha Kent (Michele Scarabel- Jordan walking back home when can get the Sun’s rays on our good, lift off. After climbing at a The Wrights used the same type verance is situated exactly where li) was so integral in making he is attacked by Tag Harris solar panel and begin recharging rate of about 3 feet per second (1 of material – an unbleached they want it to be inside the air- Clark the man he is now. We also (Wern Lee). Tag blames him for our batteries,” said Balaram. meter per second), the helicopter muslin called “Pride of the West” feld, the elaborate process to see Jon’s regret after leaving his current condition. On the sixth and fnal sched- will hover at 10 feet (3 meters) – to cover their glider and aircraft deploy the helicopter on the sur- Metropolis after he gets dumped This is another great install- uled sol of this deployment above the surface for up to 30 wings beginning in 1901. The face of Mars begins. by his girlfriend Eliza (Coral ment that leaves viewers with a phase, the team will need to con- seconds. Then, the Mars Heli- Apollo 11 crew few a different “As with everything with the Humphrey). was built up in the lot of questions and it’s a bum- frm three things: that Ingenuity’s copter will descend and touch piece of the material, along with a helicopter, this type of deploy- previous episodes. There is such mer that we have to wait till May four legs are frmly on the surface back down on the Martian sur- small splinter of wood from the ment has never been done a likable trait for Jonathan. Usu- 18th for the next episode. of Jezero Crater, that the rover face. Wright Flyer, to the Moon and before,” said Farah Alibay, Mars ally optimistic, the character Another great episode and is did, indeed, drive about 16 feet Several hours after the frst back during their iconic mission tends to not take the negativity, Helicopter integration lead for the still going strong. (about 5 meters) away, and that fight has occurred, Perseverance in July 1969. which is shown at the end of the Perseverance rover. “Once we both helicopter and rover are will downlink Ingenuity’s frst set episode. start the deployment there is no communicating via their onboard of engineering data and, possibly,

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