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Six things to know about the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], July 15 (ANI): When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
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Comet of 21st century will be visible to the naked eye from July 14
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 12 (ANI): A new comet called C/2020 F3 NEOWISE which was discovered by NASA's Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope, will be clearly visible to the naked eye from July 14, giving new hope to skywatchers.
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Two bizarre brown dwarfs found with citizen scientists' help
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 11 (ANI): With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs and balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do.
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7 things to know about the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
California [USA], July 9 (ANI): In less than a month, NASA expects to launch the Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Loaded with scientific instruments, advanced computational capabilities for landing, and other new systems, the Perseverance rover is the largest, hea
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InSight flexes its arm while its 'Mole' hits pause
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 8 (ANI): NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the "mole" burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the Red Planet's deep interior to reveal details about the formation of Mars and, ultimately, all ro
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Curiosity Mars rover's summer road trip has begun
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 7 (ANI): After more than a year in a clay-rich region, Curiosity is making a mile-long journey around some deep sand so that it can explore higher up Mount Sharp.
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Goldschmidt: AI to help search for life on Mars and beyond
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [India], June 26 (ANI): NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets. Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) have announced first results from new intelligent systems, to be installed in space
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NASA's telescope captures cosmic flapping 'Bat Shadow'
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 25 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star's unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region -- like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall.
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This hopping robot could explore the solar system's icy moons
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], June 25 (ANI): SPARROW, a steam-powered robotic concept, could one day take giant leaps over some of the most hazardous terrains known (and unknown) in the solar system.
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Newly discovered planet zips around baby star in a week
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): Understanding how planets form is one of the main challenges scientists face when placing our own and other planetary systems in context. Planets are thought to form from the disk-shaped clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, but this pro
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How NASA's Mars helicopter will reach the red planet's surface
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], June 24 (ANI): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometres) of interplanetary space to get to Mars.
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New study to search universe for signs of technological civilisations
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Cambridge (Massachusetts) [USA], June 20 (ANI): Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosign
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