The results show that the lake, which was present in Gale Crater over three billion years ago underwent a drying episode, potentially linked to the global drying of Mars.
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First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA
Washington: The first person on Mars is ‘likely to be a woman’, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. “It’s likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It’s also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman,” CNN cited Bridenstine as[Read More…]
How NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover enriched space science in 15 years
Los Angeles: Designed to last just 90 days and travel 1,000 metres on Martian landscape, NASA’s Opportunity rover outlived its mission lifetime by more than 14 years to become the longest lasting robot sent from Earth and the first wheeled vehicle off Earth to log a drive distance of over[Read More…]
NASA declares end of Opportunity rover’s mission on Mars
Los Angeles: NASA announced the end of its Opportunity rover’s mission on Wednesday, 15 years after its arrival on Mars. The announcement was made at a press conference at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, following NASA’s last attempt to communicate with the rover on Tuesday night which[Read More…]
NASA’s InSight lander places first instrument on Mars
Los Angeles, NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, marking the first time a seismometer had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian[Read More…]
NASA photographs Mars InSight lander from space
Washington, NASA has pinpointed the exact landing location of its newly launched InSight lander, using a powerful camera onboard another of the agency’s spacecraft, hovering around the Red Planet. On November 26, InSight landed within a 130 km ellipse at Elysium Planitia on Mars. However, there was no way to[Read More…]
Mars to look brighter, closest to the Earth in 15 years
Don’t forget to look up and catch a glimpse of a brighter Mars tonight as the Red Planet makes its closest approach to Earth in 15 years on Tuesday when the two planets will be 57.6 million kilometers apart. On July 27, Mars was at opposition, meaning that the Sun[Read More…]
Longest lunar eclipse of the century to glow blood red
Hold on, it’s Friday! The day when the longest total lunar eclipse of the century will be witnessed has arrived and you can watch it if the weather allows. The monsoon in India is keeping the sky cloudy making the chance little doubtful, but the countries which are certainly going[Read More…]
Twitter applauds Sushma Swaraj’s ‘celestial diplomacy’
Followed by over eight million people on Twitter, External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, is one of the most followed and influential leaders on Twitter. She tries to help everyone she can; whether someone has passport or visa issues, or helping Indians stranded in conflict zones. Yet, she manages to respond[Read More…]
Mars may have had rings and they may come back
Mars could once have had rings, and the red planet may regain them again, according to a new study. A new model developed by scientists at Purdue University in the US suggests that debris that was pushed into space from an asteroid slamming into Mars around 4.3 billion years ago[Read More…]
NASA orbiter detects Martian spiders
Using the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO), researchers have detected cumulative channel growth of troughs, each carved through years of erosion. Researchers said the trough might be the infant versions of larger features known as Martian “spiders,” which are radially patterned channels found only in the south polar region of the[Read More…]
Level of pollution in India, China from space shocking: Astronaut Scott Kelly
Astronaut Scott Kelly, who has the distinction of having spent a year in the space, has said that the level of pollution in China and India is shocking. “Seeing places like China and India, and the pollution that exists there almost all the time is quite shocking,” Kelly said in[Read More…]