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ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission Completes 1000 Days in Martian Orbit; Have Enough Fuel to Continue Mission for Five More Years
India’s maiden interplanetary mission – Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM has successfully pulled off 1000 earth days in the orbit of Mars and has enough fuel to go on with the mission for five further years, says a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) – Mangalyaan – the […]
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Clicks Curiosity Mountaineering Mount Sharp
Far above the Martian surface, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which passed over Mount Sharp – the prominent mountain on Mars on June 5th, has successfully clicked the rare view of NASA’s another Mars explorer – Curiosity Rover mounting the Mount Sharp said the agency in its latest press release. Using the most high-end and powerful […]
New Catalyst Can Convert Carbon Dioxide into Methane Gas via Solar Energy
The latest discovery from Australian scientists can replace the applications of fossil fuel as it can convert carbon dioxide into methane gas using solar energy. As the sources of recyclable energy are quite restricted and the applications of fossil fuel have been skyrocketing at a notable pace, it has become truly tougher to control the […]
NASA Defy Anonymous Video, Says “No Announcements about Alien Life”
There are no further declarations to make about the detection of extraterrestrial life, confirmed a spokesperson for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), while complete defying the anonymous video and relentless media reports which claimed that the US-based space agency is going to make some new announcements about the discovery of alien life soon. […]
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Beams Back Stunning View of Black Bands across Saturn’s Forefront
NASA’s iconic Cassini mission that is currently conducting a series of courageous ring-grazing dives as the mission is inching closer to a historic end in September has beamed back a spectacular view of the sliver of the sunlit atmosphere of Saturn with its icy rings, spread out across the forefront of the planet as a […]
SpaceX Launches First Of Two Rapid-Fire Weekend ‘Doubleheader’ Rockets
In a path-breaking doubleheader mission that marked the second launch of a recycled first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, the US-based SpaceX has successfully set out a Bulgarian communications satellite to orbit Friday. Billionaire Elon Musk-owned pioneering space agency – the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has successfully opened the launch window for its […]
NASA Team Publishes Profile of “219 Aspirant Planets” Discovered By Kepler Space Telescope
NASA’s iconic Kepler Space Telescope, which has been there in an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit since March 7, 2009, and keeping an eye on the celestial activities for discovering the potential Earth-sized planets, has successfully managed to track down “219 Aspirant Planets” and a team of astronomers from NASA has detailed about the potentiality of those […]
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Tracks down Presence of Frost on Moon
A team of scientists at NASA, while analyzing the database, transmitted by one the agency’s most powerful orbiter – Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – has stumbled upon the presence of frost on the lunar surface – a discovery which may open new windows for astronomers to track down the presence of life on the moon. Is […]
Possibility of life on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
NASA’s project, Cassini Telescope is solely dedicated to fid out happenings of Saturn and its Moons. Recently, Cassini is totally engrossed in finding more about Saturn’s sixth largest Moon Enceladus. Enceladus is the icy Moon of Saturn. In a new research, it has been observed that the cracks from the icy shells are illuminating vapours which […]