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Navy's Ships, Aircrafts Continue To Monitor Security In Arabian Sea, Gulf Of Aden
Indian Navy on Wednesday said its ships and aircraft remain "mission deployed" for maintaining enhanced surveillance and undertaking maritime security operations.
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NASA's New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto's Moon Charon's Red Cap
NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charo...
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Pluto's Icy Heart Regulates Its Atmospheric Circulation: Study
Pluto's heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it is not the barren world scientists thought it was.
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NASA's New Horizons Mission To Travel Deeper Into Space
Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission will fly deeper into space towards an ancient object considered to be one of the early building blocks of the solar system.
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Scientists Find Giant 'Bite Mark' On Pluto's Surface
Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant "bite mark" on Pluto's surface.
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NASA Probe Beams Sharpest Ever Images of Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back some of the sharpest images of Pluto, showing a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains, which may be the best close-ups of the icy-dwarf planet that humans could see for decades.
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Scientists to Hunt for Alien Life on Jupiter's Moons
After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, media reports said.
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Scientists Puzzle Over Pluto's Polygons
New pictures relayed by the first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto show odd polygon-shaped features and smooth hills in an crater-free plain, indications that the icy world is geologically active, New Horizons scientists said on Friday.
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Narendra Modi Congratulates Nasa on Pluto Mission
"Congratulations to @Nasa team. Their efforts will provide rich insights to enhance our understanding of our solar system."
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PM Modi Congratulates NASA on Pluto Mission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight congratulated NASA for its success in space exploration as its spaceship sent data and photos of Pluto.
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Nasa's New Horizons Probe Flies Past Pluto, World Awaits Historic Images
The mission is expected to beam back key images of Pluto's surface to Earth 9 hours after the flyby occurred.
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NASA's New Horizons Probe Makes Pluto Flyby Nine Years After Leaving Earth
Scientists at Nasa's New Horizons mission control centre are celebrating the spacecraft's dramatic flyby of Pluto, the last unexplored world in the solar system.
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NASA Counts Down to Nail-Biter Pluto Flyby
An unmanned NASA spacecraft is hurtling into the unknown, and Tuesday will make a close shave past Pluto, allowing scientists a close glimpse of the dwarf planet's surface for the first time.
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NASA Briefly Lost Touch With Historic Pluto Mission
NASA briefly lost touch this weekend with an unmanned spacecraft on its way to a historic encounter with Pluto, but the US space agency said today the glitch has been fixed.
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NASA Mission Spots All Pluto Family Members
For the first time, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has photographed Kerberos and Styx - the smallest and faintest of Pluto's five known moons.
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Navy's Ships, Aircrafts Continue To Monitor Security In Arabian Sea, Gulf Of Aden
Indian Navy on Wednesday said its ships and aircraft remain "mission deployed" for maintaining enhanced surveillance and undertaking maritime security operations.
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NASA's New Horizons Data Helps Identify a Possible Source for Pluto's Moon Charon's Red Cap
NASA's New Horizons mission data along with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling has helped scientists to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. The team realistically replicated Charon surface conditions to measure the composition and colour of hydrocarbons produced on Charo...
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Pluto's Icy Heart Regulates Its Atmospheric Circulation: Study
Pluto's heart-shaped structure, named Tombaugh Regio, quickly became famous after NASA's New Horizons mission captured footage of the dwarf planet in 2015 and revealed it is not the barren world scientists thought it was.
-
NASA's New Horizons Mission To Travel Deeper Into Space
Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission will fly deeper into space towards an ancient object considered to be one of the early building blocks of the solar system.
-
Scientists Find Giant 'Bite Mark' On Pluto's Surface
Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant "bite mark" on Pluto's surface.
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NASA Probe Beams Sharpest Ever Images of Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back some of the sharpest images of Pluto, showing a wide variety of cratered, mountainous and glacial terrains, which may be the best close-ups of the icy-dwarf planet that humans could see for decades.
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Scientists to Hunt for Alien Life on Jupiter's Moons
After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter, media reports said.
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Scientists Puzzle Over Pluto's Polygons
New pictures relayed by the first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto show odd polygon-shaped features and smooth hills in an crater-free plain, indications that the icy world is geologically active, New Horizons scientists said on Friday.
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Narendra Modi Congratulates Nasa on Pluto Mission
"Congratulations to @Nasa team. Their efforts will provide rich insights to enhance our understanding of our solar system."
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PM Modi Congratulates NASA on Pluto Mission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tonight congratulated NASA for its success in space exploration as its spaceship sent data and photos of Pluto.
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Nasa's New Horizons Probe Flies Past Pluto, World Awaits Historic Images
The mission is expected to beam back key images of Pluto's surface to Earth 9 hours after the flyby occurred.
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NASA's New Horizons Probe Makes Pluto Flyby Nine Years After Leaving Earth
Scientists at Nasa's New Horizons mission control centre are celebrating the spacecraft's dramatic flyby of Pluto, the last unexplored world in the solar system.
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NASA Counts Down to Nail-Biter Pluto Flyby
An unmanned NASA spacecraft is hurtling into the unknown, and Tuesday will make a close shave past Pluto, allowing scientists a close glimpse of the dwarf planet's surface for the first time.
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NASA Briefly Lost Touch With Historic Pluto Mission
NASA briefly lost touch this weekend with an unmanned spacecraft on its way to a historic encounter with Pluto, but the US space agency said today the glitch has been fixed.
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NASA Mission Spots All Pluto Family Members
For the first time, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has photographed Kerberos and Styx - the smallest and faintest of Pluto's five known moons.
