Chocolate chips and money. Exactly. Money, honey. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. Today president elect donald trump named the c. E. O. Of exxon mobil, Rex Tillerson, to be secretary of state. The Senior Member of the cabinet. Tillerson was chosen because hes made successful deals with heads of state all around the world, but those could be ties that bind. Tillerson, for example, has a close business relationship with Vladimir Putin of russia. The lifelong oil man has no government experience, but he did convince exxon to acknowledge climate change. Also today, mr. Trump picked another texan, former governor rick perry, to head the energy department, a department that perry once vowed to scrap. Major garrett begins our coverage. We just couldnt be more grateful that someone of Rex Tillersons proven will, leadership and accomplishment has been willing to step forward to serve our nation as our next secretary of state. Reporter Rex Till
The solar wind is constant in the solar system – except on Christmas Day 2022 when it suddenly vanished completely. The event was detected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars, which found that the Red Planet’s magnetosphere tripled in size in response.