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Closest to the Sun yet, Mercury has craters that could be coldest in Solar System

The joint European and Japanese space agency's BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its sixth and final flyby of Mercury, capturing stunning images of the planet's surface and paving the way for its upcoming orbital insertion in late 2026. European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher revealed the first images, showcasing possibly icy craters that remain in permanent shadow and vast …

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Spacecraft buzzes Mercury’s north pole and beams back stunning photos

Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole. The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Chandrayaan vs. Chang’e: How different are India’s and China’s lunar missions?

The Hindu

The story so far: Scripting history, the Chandrayaan-3 lander landed in the south polar region of the moon on August 23 at 6:03 pm IST, making India the first country to successfully soft-land in that area. Planned initially as a back-up for Chang’e 3, the Chang’e 4 mission launched Yutu-2 on December 8, 2018, and it became the first rover …

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1 year, 4 months ago

'Like tasting cooked veggie': Scientist on Chandrayaan confirming sulphur, oxygen on moon

Hindustan Times

Chandrayaan 3 on Tuesday confirmed the presence of sulphur and oxygen on the moon apart from many other elements like aluminium, calcium etc. Explaining the significance of the finding, scientist TV Venkateswaran told news agency ANI that it is like tasting cooked vegetables to confirm whether they are fully cooked. Explaining the significance of the finding of the Chandrayaan 3 …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Pragyan rover confirms sulphur at moon’s south pole, searching for hydrogen

The Hindu

Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur on the moon’s surface, near its south pole, and is still searching for hydrogen, the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Tuesday. The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy instrument onboard the Chandrayaan-3’s rover has made the first-ever in-situ measurements on the elemental composition of the lunar surface near the south pole. “These in-situ …

Hydrogen Pragyan Rover Libs Sulphur

1 year, 4 months ago

The Hindu Editorial on Chandryaan-3 soft-landing: On the moon, over the moon

The Hindu

At 5.40 p.m. on August 23, the Chandrayaan-3 lander was a 1.7-tonne hunk of metal, plastic, and glass speeding in an orbit some 30 km above the moon. The immediate implication of the Chandrayaan-3 lander now sitting on the moon is that ISRO took away the right lessons from the failure of the preceding mission, Chandrayaan-2. While Russia and India …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Flying colours: A tribute to the Boeing 747

Hindustan Times

It was designed for the US military. “Even when you understand the science behind flight, there’s nothing like seeing a 747 take flight to remind you that there’s also magic here,” said actor John Travolta, also a 747 pilot, speaking via video link as the last jumbo jet from this line left Boeing’s plant on January 31. In April 2022, …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Sun block: NASA's Mars missions will halt communication

India TV News

NASA will halt commanding its Mars missions for the next few weeks as Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun, the US space agency has said. While the missions on the Red Planet will continue collecting data, engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until October 16, the agency said in a …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Mercury ahead! European spacecraft to get first glimpse of the closest planet to Sun

India Today

A month after BepiColombo conducted a flyby with Venus and beamed back images of Earth's mysterious twin, the European, Japanese probe is set to get the first view of its destination — the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. During the first flyby, the spacecraft will capture images of the innermost planet of the solar system and gather science data …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Nasa to upgrade Deep Space Network to communicate with orbiters, rovers, and probes beyond solar system

India Today

In October last year astronomers sent out a series of commands to a spacecraft, billions of kilometres away and the probe which has been flying for over 44 years answered the call. This call was made possible by an upgraded 70-meter-wide radio antenna parts of Nasa's Deep Space Network that acts as a bridge between probes flying beyond Jupiter, rovers …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Perseverance Lands: What We Already Know of Mars From Meteorites

The Quint

Images taken by orbiters reveal Mars has more than 40,000 craters, each formed by an asteroid colliding with the surface. Eventually, some of the ejected Martian material has intercepted Earth’s trajectory, flashing through the atmosphere until it either burned up or came to rest on the surface. Although Martian meteorites have been found across Earth, most have been collected from …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Orbiters could find ice on Mars for future human missions

CNN

CNN — Mars is too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface, but a wealth of ice may exist just beneath the surface in certain regions. Future human missions to Mars could use this ice as a resource and study it to learn about the planet’s past. Later missions with longer expeditions on the Martian surface could use …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Martian landslides may be caused by melting ice and salt under the surface

CNN

CNN — Mars may seem like a still, frozen desert, but more evidence suggests that the red planet is active in subtle ways. Yoseph Yechieli and Gideon Baer/Geological Survey of Israel The scientists modeled the briny water beneath the surface of Mars in a lab by taking the collected soil samples and exposing them to water and chlorine salts and …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Is there life on Venus? Scientists say maybe

Live Mint

An international group of scientists reported the detection of small quantities of a gas in the atmosphere of Venus they believe could be a sign of biological life on the often-overlooked planet. Even I’m skeptical.” The team pointed to two possible explanations for the findings—“some crazy, unknown chemistry, or life on Venus,” said Sara Saeger, an MIT planetary scientist who …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Future of lunar habitats: Designing for life on the Moon

Live Mint

In 2024, US space agency Nasa’s Artemis programme will see astronauts return to the Moon for the first time since December 1972. The next milestone is figuring out how to build Moon habitats that will not only allow astronauts to survive on the lunar surface but eventually enable human settlements on the astronomical body closest to us. The lunar soil …

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4 years, 5 months ago

NASA's Big Move to Search for Life on Mars – And to Bring Rocks Home

News 18

NASA just took the next giant leap in the search for signs of life beyond Earth. Between 3 and 4 billion years ago, Mars hosted vast river networks as long as the Mississippi, deep lakes that contained the building blocks of life, and hot springs that bubbled with potential for life. After five years of debate, Jezero crater was selected …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Mars 2020 missions: Here’s why multiple spacecraft are launching this summer

CNN

CNN — If it seems like Mars is a popular destination right now, that’s for a reason: The chance to fly thereonly comes around every 26 months. “And I don’t think any of us anticipated thisCovid pandemic right during the most busy time of the mission.” This is when mission teams were working during three different shifts a day, 24/7, …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Mars missions are latest arena in the US-China rivalry

CNN

Hong Kong CNN Business — Two years after humans last landed a probe on Mars, both the United States and China are launching missions to the red planet this month and setting up a new arena for their growing rivalry. Video Ad Feedback China lands on the far side of the moon 01:08 - Source: CNN Space race In their …

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4 years, 8 months ago

ESA-JAXA's joint mission, BepiColombo, flew within 12,700 km of Earth on its way to explore Mercury

Firstpost

The spacecraft’s closest approach to Earth, 12,700 km, occurred over the South Atlantic and telescopes in Chile caught a glimpse of it. A Mercury-bound spacecraft swooped past Earth on Friday, tweaking its roundabout path to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet. Launched one and a half years ago, Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo spacecraft passed within 12,700 kilometres of Earth. …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Our eyes on Mars: How Curiosity sees the Red Planet

CNN

CNN — NASA’s Curiosity rover sits on Mars with a view that no human has ever beheld in person. But Curiosity’s photography skills aren’t just a window into another world – the images, curated by a diligent, little-known team of scientists, deliver crucial information that informs future science. Photoshop doesn’t know how to handle the images sent back from Mars …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Viking 2’s trip to Mars

The Hindu

The year 1976 marked the bicentenary of the United States’ founding in 1776. Change in landing site The Viking 2 also confronted a similar scenario as the photographs of the original landing site showed a rough terrain. A different site at Utopia Planitia near the edge of the polar ice cap was selected and after the lander separated from the …

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5 years, 5 months ago

ISRO's space journey timeline: From converting a toilet into satellite data centre to launching moon orbiters

India Today

From the days of having a church as control room, the bishop's house as office and a bicycle as ferry and naked eyes to track the smoke plume at Thumba in Kerala and converting a toilet into a satellite data receiving centre in Bengaluru, Indian space odyssey have come a long way to ferrying foreign satellites, launching moon and Mars …

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Closest to the Sun yet, Mercury has craters that could be coldest in Solar System

Spacecraft buzzes Mercury’s north pole and beams back stunning photos

Chandrayaan vs. Chang’e: How different are India’s and China’s lunar missions?

'Like tasting cooked veggie': Scientist on Chandrayaan confirming sulphur, oxygen on moon

Pragyan rover confirms sulphur at moon’s south pole, searching for hydrogen

The Hindu Editorial on Chandryaan-3 soft-landing: On the moon, over the moon

Flying colours: A tribute to the Boeing 747

Sun block: NASA's Mars missions will halt communication

Mercury ahead! European spacecraft to get first glimpse of the closest planet to Sun

Nasa to upgrade Deep Space Network to communicate with orbiters, rovers, and probes beyond solar system

Perseverance Lands: What We Already Know of Mars From Meteorites

Orbiters could find ice on Mars for future human missions

Martian landslides may be caused by melting ice and salt under the surface

Is there life on Venus? Scientists say maybe

Future of lunar habitats: Designing for life on the Moon

NASA's Big Move to Search for Life on Mars – And to Bring Rocks Home

Mars 2020 missions: Here’s why multiple spacecraft are launching this summer

Mars missions are latest arena in the US-China rivalry

ESA-JAXA's joint mission, BepiColombo, flew within 12,700 km of Earth on its way to explore Mercury

Our eyes on Mars: How Curiosity sees the Red Planet

Viking 2’s trip to Mars

ISRO's space journey timeline: From converting a toilet into satellite data centre to launching moon orbiters