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Watch: Astronauts Capture Shimmering Aurora Lights From Space After Solar Storm Hits Earth
An amazing video filmed from the International Space Station (ISS) has captured the incredible spectacle of shimmering aurora visible from space. The ISS posted the footage on Twitter on Sunday after a moderate geomagnetic storm hit our planet.
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COP26 Aims To Banish Coal. Asia Is Building Coal-Fired Plants To Burn It
On the coastline near India's southern tip, workers toil on a pier carrying a conveyor belt that cuts a mile into the Indian Ocean where the azure waters are deep enough for ships to berth and unload huge cargoes of coal.
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Small Asteroid Becomes Closest Ever Seen Passing Earth: NASA
An asteroid the size of an SUV passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above Earth, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said Tuesday.
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SUV-Size Asteroid Buzzes By Earth In Closest Flyby On Record
Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by Earth all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 2,950 km above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday.
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Mission Sagar: India Sends INS Kesari With Medical Teams, Food To Indian Ocean Countries
India on Sunday dispatched INS Kesari, carrying on board two medical assistance teams, medicines and essential food items, to countries in the southern Indian Ocean as part of the government's "Mission Sagar" initiative.
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INS Kochi Enters Seychelles' Port Victoria For Operational Turnaround
INS Kochi, an indigenous stealth Destroyer, operating in Southern Indian Ocean Region, entered the port of Victoria in Seychelles on Thursday for an Operational Turnaround.
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Navy Officer Stranded In Indian Ocean Near Australia Sends SOS
Indian naval officer Abhilash Tomy, badly injured after his yacht was hit by a vicious storm mid-way across the southern Indian Ocean while taking part in the Golden Globe Race, is in touch with race organisers in France through messages and has requested for a stretcher as he cannot move on his own, a defence spokesman said on Saturday.
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MH370 Was "Manipulated" Off Course To Its End, Report Says
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since 2014, was probably deliberately steered off course and flown to the southern Indian Ocean, according to the Malaysian government's safety report into the disaster.
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Inside China's $1 Billion Port Where Ships Don't Want to Stop
Each year roughly 60,000 ships vital to the global economy sail through the Indian Ocean past a Chinese-operated port on the southern tip of Sri Lanka. Almost none of them stop to unload cargo.
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Report On MH370 Finds 'Initially Similar' Route On Pilot's Flight Simulator
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was "initially similar" to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday.
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Final Sweep For MH370 Sea Search
The last vessel searching for missing MH370 has left on its final sweep across the southern Indian Ocean, Australia said Wednesday, as the transport minister cautioned the airliner might not be found in coming weeks.
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MH370 Search Ship Leaves Australia For Perhaps Final Time
A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago.
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Bad Winter Delays MH370 Search By Up To 2 Months, Say Authorities
An undersea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be delayed by up to two months because of bad weather in the Indian Ocean during the southern winter, authorities said on Wednesday.
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MH370 Hunters To Probe Underwater Objects: Report
Investigators will deploy an underwater vehicle to take a closer look at objects found during a sonar survey of the southern Indian Ocean in the hunt for MH370, Australia said today, as it extended the search into next year.
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Flight Simulator In MH370 Captain's Home Plotted Indian Ocean Course: Report
A home flight simulator owned by the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was used to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean where the aircraft is believed to have gone missing, the Australian agency in charge of the search said on Thursday.
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Watch: Astronauts Capture Shimmering Aurora Lights From Space After Solar Storm Hits Earth
An amazing video filmed from the International Space Station (ISS) has captured the incredible spectacle of shimmering aurora visible from space. The ISS posted the footage on Twitter on Sunday after a moderate geomagnetic storm hit our planet.
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COP26 Aims To Banish Coal. Asia Is Building Coal-Fired Plants To Burn It
On the coastline near India's southern tip, workers toil on a pier carrying a conveyor belt that cuts a mile into the Indian Ocean where the azure waters are deep enough for ships to berth and unload huge cargoes of coal.
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Small Asteroid Becomes Closest Ever Seen Passing Earth: NASA
An asteroid the size of an SUV passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers) above Earth, the closest asteroid ever observed passing by our planet, NASA said Tuesday.
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SUV-Size Asteroid Buzzes By Earth In Closest Flyby On Record
Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by Earth all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 2,950 km above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday.
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Mission Sagar: India Sends INS Kesari With Medical Teams, Food To Indian Ocean Countries
India on Sunday dispatched INS Kesari, carrying on board two medical assistance teams, medicines and essential food items, to countries in the southern Indian Ocean as part of the government's "Mission Sagar" initiative.
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INS Kochi Enters Seychelles' Port Victoria For Operational Turnaround
INS Kochi, an indigenous stealth Destroyer, operating in Southern Indian Ocean Region, entered the port of Victoria in Seychelles on Thursday for an Operational Turnaround.
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Navy Officer Stranded In Indian Ocean Near Australia Sends SOS
Indian naval officer Abhilash Tomy, badly injured after his yacht was hit by a vicious storm mid-way across the southern Indian Ocean while taking part in the Golden Globe Race, is in touch with race organisers in France through messages and has requested for a stretcher as he cannot move on his own, a defence spokesman said on Saturday.
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MH370 Was "Manipulated" Off Course To Its End, Report Says
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing since 2014, was probably deliberately steered off course and flown to the southern Indian Ocean, according to the Malaysian government's safety report into the disaster.
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Inside China's $1 Billion Port Where Ships Don't Want to Stop
Each year roughly 60,000 ships vital to the global economy sail through the Indian Ocean past a Chinese-operated port on the southern tip of Sri Lanka. Almost none of them stop to unload cargo.
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Report On MH370 Finds 'Initially Similar' Route On Pilot's Flight Simulator
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was "initially similar" to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday.
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Final Sweep For MH370 Sea Search
The last vessel searching for missing MH370 has left on its final sweep across the southern Indian Ocean, Australia said Wednesday, as the transport minister cautioned the airliner might not be found in coming weeks.
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MH370 Search Ship Leaves Australia For Perhaps Final Time
A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years ago.
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Bad Winter Delays MH370 Search By Up To 2 Months, Say Authorities
An undersea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be delayed by up to two months because of bad weather in the Indian Ocean during the southern winter, authorities said on Wednesday.
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MH370 Hunters To Probe Underwater Objects: Report
Investigators will deploy an underwater vehicle to take a closer look at objects found during a sonar survey of the southern Indian Ocean in the hunt for MH370, Australia said today, as it extended the search into next year.
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Flight Simulator In MH370 Captain's Home Plotted Indian Ocean Course: Report
A home flight simulator owned by the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was used to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean where the aircraft is believed to have gone missing, the Australian agency in charge of the search said on Thursday.
