And now on Today, as the time approaches 8:53, here's John Naughtie...

...made out of Lego.

Had to be done, really.

But, sorry, we're out of time. Now back to the studio.

NASA launches its latest Mars lander

The latest of three lander missions has launched today. There's some lovely film of the launch on the BBC news site.

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