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NASA will inspire world when it returns Mars samples to Earth in 2033
Updated : 2 weeks, 3 days ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): NASA has completed the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return Program, which is nearing completion of the conceptual design phase. During this phase, the program team evaluated and refined the architecture to return the scientifically selected
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Praveen Kumar Neelappa co-founder of Physeek Fit produces a work of scienc
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 30 (ANI/BusinessWire India): A book is a magical object that makes our imagination go wild and helps us travel places. How many times have you traversed across the world to a unique land filled with interesting people, all in the comfort of your home? Eve
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Research shows how Mars lost its oceans
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], February 9 (ANI): It is a well-known fact that Mars once had oceans in part due to a protective magnetic field similar to Earth's. The layer of ice on the cap of the planet says it all. However, the magnetic field disappeared, and a new research may finally be able to explain
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Astronomers capture red supergiant's death throes
Updated : 6 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Evanston (Illinois) [US], January 18 (ANI): For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged in real-time the dramatic end to a red supergiant's life -- watching the massive star's rapid self-destruction and final death throes before collapsing into a type II supernova.
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China's Tianwen-1 probe lands on Mars
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 15 (ANI/Sputnik): The Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 with the country's first Mars rover Zhurong successfully landed on Saturday on the surface of the Red Planet, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter to begin new demonstration phase
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 1 (ANI): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations demonstration phase, exploring how aerial scouting and other functions
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracts first oxygen from Red Planet
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 22 (ANI): The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.
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NASA helicopter scripts history, takes first flight on Mars
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
California [US], April 19 (ANI): A small robotic helicopter named Ingenuity on Monday scripted history when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the wispy air of the red planet.
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Ready for lift off? NASA's Ingenuity helicopter set to make history
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 19 (ANI): NASA, America's space agency, will attempt to fly its miniature helicopter--Ingenuity--above the surface of the red planet Mars on Monday (local time).
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NASA's Perseverance rover gives high-definition panoramic view of landing
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 25 (ANI): NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Sunday, after rotating its mast, or "head," 360 degrees, allowing the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching d
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NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover provides front-row seat to landing, first a
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted and rocketed toward the surface of Mars.
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Perseverance Rover will peer beneath Mars' surface
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): After touching down on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial life. But the six-wheeled robot will not be looking jus
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