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Mumbai: Randeep Hooda takes part in cleanliness drive at Versova police st
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 25 (ANI): Taking a step ahead in making the nation and the planet cleaner, actor Randeep Hooda on Saturday cleaned the Versova Police Station, along with the Mumbai Police and environmentalist Afroz Shah.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures summertime on Saturn
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Baltimore (Maryland) [USA], July 24 (ANI): Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from the Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet's
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Perseverance microphones fulfill long campaign to hear sounds from Mars
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
California [US], July 23 (ANI): If you could stand on the surface of Mars, what would you hear? While 8 missions have returned stunning views from the surface of the Red Planet, none have returned any sound.
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'Lost' world rediscovery is step toward finding habitable planets
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 21 (ANI): The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable 'Goldilocks zone' in a distant solar system.
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Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planets?
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 20 (ANI): Many exoplanets known today are 'super-Earths,' with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and 'mini-Neptunes,' with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, was long thought to be gas planets, made up of hydrogen and helium.
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Five planets can be seen with naked eyes in the coming week, says scientis
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 19 (ANI): In the coming week, a unique phenomenon will take place when five planets can be seen with the naked eyes from several parts of the earth, a city-based scientist said on Sunday.
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Five planets can be seen with naked eyes before sunrise on Sunday
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 19 (ANI): A unique opportunity will be available to all just before the sunrise on July 19, it is the chance to see as many as five planets, along with the crescent moon, with the naked eye, according to astronomer RC Kapoor.
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Artificial Intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 14 (ANI): Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities -- all the configurations that would lead to collisions -- would leave behind a sharper view of planetary systems around other stars, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
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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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ADB becomes observer of Network for Greening the Financial System
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], July 3 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has joined the central banks and supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) as an observer.
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Swedish Institute of Space Physics to return to Venus on Indian Space Miss
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], July 2 (ANI): On board the Indian Venus mission Shukrayaan-1, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) will explore Venus for the second time. IRF's satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer (VNA) will study how the charged particles from the Sun interact with t
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