adventurer victor vescovo set a new record for the deepest ever dive, seven miles down.ing on the moon, but a wet version of it. there were small craters here and there. there were slight undulations. there weren't rocks until you got to the southern or northern portions of the mariana trench. it had some variety, but it was quiet. it was peaceful. in the midst of the festive season, our thoughts turn to the year ahead, where climate will continue to dominate the agenda. the onus will be on the uk to help find a political solution as it hosts the next major climate conference in glasgow. but there will be plenty of space stories, too, with four missions to mars, three rovers roaming, two orbiters orbiting... # ..and a landing on the martian surface! what a year for science it's going to be. merry christmas! after a ll after all the rain we've had lately, today's weather felt something like a christmas miracle, dry for pretty much all of us. many got to see sunshine. that was the lincolnshire coast earlier. but things are changing behind me with this lump of cloud being b