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After Starship Test, Elon Musk Says It Is "Highly Likely" Man Will Go To Mars Within 10 Years
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has once again said that it is "highly likely" man will go to Mars within 10 years, putting his timeframe down to the fact he is "congenitally optimistic".
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Mars' Watery Past: NASA's Curiosity Rover Makes A Stunning New Discovery
After more than ten years on Mars, the Curiosity rover is still operating normally and discovering facts that contradict earlier theories.
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JEE Main 2022 Marred By Technical Glitches; Lok Sabha Member Seeks Exemption For Affected Candidates
JEE Main 2022: Member of Parliament for Sivaganga Karti P Chidambaram reiterating the fact that the JEE Main can be taken only thrice has asked the Education Minister to provide for exemption, particularly for the 2020 batch of affected students.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Unearths Surprising Facts About Jezero Crater
In its latest discovery, the NASA's Perseverance rover has found that the floor of the crater, which once hosted a lake billion years ago, is made up of volcanic rocks rather than sedimentary rocks, as believed earlier. The rover started examining the floor in the spring of 2021, after which scientists studied the data. It was found that the floor ...
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NASA's Insight Mars Lander to Get Few More Weeks for Scientific Observations
NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Mars Lander will continue to keep its seismometer functional despite the fact that it will lead the mission to run out of power sooner than previously planned by the space agency.
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ISRO Says Mangalyaan Threw Similar Results About Sun's Corona as NASA's Parker Probe
The Sun is a mysterious place. Its atmosphere gets much hotter the farther one goes from the Sun's blazing surface. In fact, the outermost part of the Sun (corona) burns at a temperature rising to one million degrees Celsius, while just 1,500 kilometres below, the surface simmers at 5,500 degrees Celsius.
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Fact Check: NASA's New Mars Rover Captures Sound Of Red Planet?
A video has been doing the rounds on social media, including Twitter, that shows NASA's rover on Mars capturing what appears to be some ambient noise.
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Fossils Point to Life on Earth 4 Billion Years Ago
The fact that life kick-started not long after Earth formed suggests it could also emerge on watery worlds outside our Solar System at comparable stages of formation.
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Trump's New Explanation For Losing The Popular Vote? A Twitter-Born Conspiracy Theory
Something has clearly been gnawing at Donald Trump. Sure, he won the electoral vote and therefore the presidency, but he lost the popular vote by 2.2 million votes - and counting. (Counting mostly in California, where Democrat Hillary Clinton won easily and where there are 1.4 million more ballots to tally.) Trump's victory is marred by that fact: ...
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Nasa Reveals the Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms
The winds in the largest dust storms are unlikely to tip over or rip apart major mechanical equipment, Nasa said.
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Mangalyaan Makes History: Top 10 Facts
Mangalyaan, India's maiden Mars mission, successfully entered the planet's orbit today, in a historic moment for India's space programme. "History has been created," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who watched the spacecraft successfully enter the Mars orbit this morning.
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India's 450-crore mission to Mars to begin today: 10 facts
India is aiming to join the world's deep-space pioneers with a journey to Mars that starts today and costs 73 million dollars or Rs 450 crores.
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10 facts about NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and how it survived '7 minutes of terror'
The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 pm (11:00 IST) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life. Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early h...
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5 things you may not know about the planet Mars
Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years ago is believed to have been warm and wet, like early Earth.
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory: 5 facts
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, the most sophisticated robotic vehicle ever built for planetary exploration, aims to land on the red planet on August 6. It will study the Gale crater near Mars's equator for signs that life may once have existed, and for clues about past and present habitable environments on the Red Planet.
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After Starship Test, Elon Musk Says It Is "Highly Likely" Man Will Go To Mars Within 10 Years
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has once again said that it is "highly likely" man will go to Mars within 10 years, putting his timeframe down to the fact he is "congenitally optimistic".
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Mars' Watery Past: NASA's Curiosity Rover Makes A Stunning New Discovery
After more than ten years on Mars, the Curiosity rover is still operating normally and discovering facts that contradict earlier theories.
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JEE Main 2022 Marred By Technical Glitches; Lok Sabha Member Seeks Exemption For Affected Candidates
JEE Main 2022: Member of Parliament for Sivaganga Karti P Chidambaram reiterating the fact that the JEE Main can be taken only thrice has asked the Education Minister to provide for exemption, particularly for the 2020 batch of affected students.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Unearths Surprising Facts About Jezero Crater
In its latest discovery, the NASA's Perseverance rover has found that the floor of the crater, which once hosted a lake billion years ago, is made up of volcanic rocks rather than sedimentary rocks, as believed earlier. The rover started examining the floor in the spring of 2021, after which scientists studied the data. It was found that the floor ...
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NASA's Insight Mars Lander to Get Few More Weeks for Scientific Observations
NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Mars Lander will continue to keep its seismometer functional despite the fact that it will lead the mission to run out of power sooner than previously planned by the space agency.
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ISRO Says Mangalyaan Threw Similar Results About Sun's Corona as NASA's Parker Probe
The Sun is a mysterious place. Its atmosphere gets much hotter the farther one goes from the Sun's blazing surface. In fact, the outermost part of the Sun (corona) burns at a temperature rising to one million degrees Celsius, while just 1,500 kilometres below, the surface simmers at 5,500 degrees Celsius.
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Fact Check: NASA's New Mars Rover Captures Sound Of Red Planet?
A video has been doing the rounds on social media, including Twitter, that shows NASA's rover on Mars capturing what appears to be some ambient noise.
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Fossils Point to Life on Earth 4 Billion Years Ago
The fact that life kick-started not long after Earth formed suggests it could also emerge on watery worlds outside our Solar System at comparable stages of formation.
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Trump's New Explanation For Losing The Popular Vote? A Twitter-Born Conspiracy Theory
Something has clearly been gnawing at Donald Trump. Sure, he won the electoral vote and therefore the presidency, but he lost the popular vote by 2.2 million votes - and counting. (Counting mostly in California, where Democrat Hillary Clinton won easily and where there are 1.4 million more ballots to tally.) Trump's victory is marred by that fact: ...
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Nasa Reveals the Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms
The winds in the largest dust storms are unlikely to tip over or rip apart major mechanical equipment, Nasa said.
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Mangalyaan Makes History: Top 10 Facts
Mangalyaan, India's maiden Mars mission, successfully entered the planet's orbit today, in a historic moment for India's space programme. "History has been created," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who watched the spacecraft successfully enter the Mars orbit this morning.
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India's 450-crore mission to Mars to begin today: 10 facts
India is aiming to join the world's deep-space pioneers with a journey to Mars that starts today and costs 73 million dollars or Rs 450 crores.
-
10 facts about NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and how it survived '7 minutes of terror'
The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 pm (11:00 IST) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life. Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early h...
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5 things you may not know about the planet Mars
Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years ago is believed to have been warm and wet, like early Earth.
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory: 5 facts
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, the most sophisticated robotic vehicle ever built for planetary exploration, aims to land on the red planet on August 6. It will study the Gale crater near Mars's equator for signs that life may once have existed, and for clues about past and present habitable environments on the Red Planet.
