Greenbelt

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  Man Found Dead In Park In Noida, Police Suspect Death By Suicide

  A man's body was found hanging from a tree in a greenbelt area in Noida Thursday morning, with the police prima facie suspecting it to be a case of suicide, officials said.

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  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Rocket Impact Site on Moon, Says Research

  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered an impact occurred on the moon on March 4, which resulted in creating a crater. The double crater was unexpected and may indicate that the rocket body had large masses at each end.

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  IIT-Kharagpur Researchers Turn Odisha Steel Plant Dumpsites Into Greenbelt

  Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have transformed Odisha's steel plants' dumpsites into greenbelts using traditional Indian organic components and Japanese afforestation techniques.

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  Green Court Seeks Report On Illegal Construction In Mayapuri Greenbelt

  The National Green Tribunal has sought a report from the forest department on a plea alleging illegal construction by DDA in a green belt in Mayapuri.

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  Closing In On Launch: NASA's Gold-Mirrored, $8 Billion Webb Space Telescope

  The world's most expensive telescope is parked for the moment in Greenbelt, Maryland, shrouded in a protective tent at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In just two years, this long-delayed, $8 billion, cosmos-penetrating instrument is supposed to be nearly a million miles from Earth.

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  Final Search Begins For New FBI Headquarters

  The FBI took a major step toward getting a new headquarters Friday when the government launched a formal search for a company to build its campus at one of three sites, in Greenbelt, Landover or Springfield, in exchange for the J. Edgar Hoover Building and as much as $1.8 billion in cash.

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  Jupiter Can Help Decode Earth's Weather System Better

  Learning more about Jupiter and its Great Red Spot could help scientists understand the Earth's weather system better, says a NASA expert.

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  'Sunscreen' Layer on Distant Exoplanet Discovered

  In what could reveal the composition of a planet and how it formed, a team including an Indian-origin researcher has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth's atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet.

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  Saharan Dust Feeding Amazon's Plants, Reveals NASA

  What connects Earth's largest, hottest desert to its largest tropical rainforest? The answer is 22,000

• Banned Substance Still Depleting Ozone Layer: NASA

  In a significant revelation, NASA researchers have shown that the earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source, decades after the compound was banned worldwide.

• Does Ocean on Pluto's Giant Moon Harbour Life?

  Even as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gears up to visit Pluto and its giant moon Charon next year, researchers predicted different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon that could point towards underground liquid water - a necessary ingredient for life.

• Robotic refuelling of spacecraft to be a reality soon

  The advanced robotic satellite refuelling and maintenance technologies are not a wild dream of the future any more.

• NASA technique to scan space dust for proof of life

  In a latest bid to unravel the mysterious origin of life, a team of researchers has invented an advanced technology to inspect extremely small meteorite samples for the components of life.

• NASA spacecraft finds plastic ingredient on Saturn's moon Titan

  NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found propylene, a chemical used to make household plastic containers, on Saturn's moon Titan, the space agency said.

• NASA probe finds new zone at doorstep to interstellar space

  Reports that NASA's long-lived Voyager 1 space probe had finally left the solar system has turned out to be a bit premature, scientists said yesterday.