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  India committed to curtail carbon emissions in Antarctica atmosphere: MoS Earth Sciences

  October 05, 2021 7:56 IST

  Minister of state for Earth Sciences Jitndra Singh addressed an international conference commemorating the signing of the Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.

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  Climate change causing drop in brightness of Earth: Study

  October 01, 2021 15:46 IST

  Researchers found that Earth is now reflecting about half a watt less light per square metre than it was 20 years ago, with most of the drop occurring in the last three years of earthshine data.

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  Sun block: NASA's Mars missions will halt communication

  September 29, 2021 23:42 IST

  While the missions on the Red Planet will continue collecting data, engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until October 16, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.

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  NASA's Lucy Mission prepares for launch to Trojan asteroids

  September 29, 2021 7:46 IST

  Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the home institution of the principal investigator for the Lucy mission.

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  Blue Origin's second crewed flight to blast off on Oct 12

  September 28, 2021 14:42 IST

  On July 20, Blue Origin successfully carried its first human flight which included Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Blue Origin's first customer, Oliver Daemen.

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  Earth-monitoring Landsat 9 satellite launches in California

  September 28, 2021 14:28 IST

  Capturing changes in the planet’s landscape ranging from the growth of cities to the movements of glaciers, the Landsat program is the longest continuous record of Earth observation from space, according to NASA.

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  NASA to launch 1 Earth-observing satellite, 4 CubeSats on Monday

  September 27, 2021 16:00 IST

  The Landsat 9 satellite is a joint NASA and US Geological Survey (USGS) mission that will continue the legacy of monitoring Earth's land and coastal regions that began with the first Landsat satellite in 1972.

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  New potential factor contributing to severity of Covid identified

  September 26, 2021 17:29 IST

  The research, published in the journal Current Issues in Molecular Biology, found that the infection of cells with SARS-CoV-2 results in increased levels of a protein called CD47 on the cell surface.

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  A gas station on Red Planet? New Carbon dioxide reactor can make Martian fuel

  September 25, 2021 23:12 IST

  The Martian atmosphere is composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. Astronauts could save half the fuel they need for a return trip home by making what they need on the red planet once they arrive, said Jingjie Wu, Assistant Professor at UC College of Engineering and Applied Science.  

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  Hubble's new 'molten Einstein ring' image prompts new research

  September 25, 2021 16:37 IST

  The image showcased a remote galaxy that is greatly magnified and distorted by the effects of gravitationally warped space.  

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  Astronomers find why galaxies become dormant

  September 23, 2021 15:19 IST

  Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, the team from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst detected six such massive galaxies that were dead.

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  NASA's Artemis rover to land near Moon's south pole

  September 21, 2021 17:15 IST

  The Artemis rover -- Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) -- during its 100-day journey will explore the region's surface and subsurface for water and other resources, the US space agency has confirmed.

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  Mars may be too small to retain enough water: Study

  September 21, 2021 15:33 IST

  NASA's Viking orbiter spacecraft -- and, more recently, the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on the ground -- returned dramatic images of Martian landscapes marked by river valleys and flood channels.  

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  Chinese scientists explore Moon rock's potential for fusion power

  September 19, 2021 20:54 IST

  The Chang'e 5 mission delivered 1.73 kg of lunar material to Earth in December 2020. A first batch of 31 samples, totaling 17.4764 grams, including fine grains, basalt fragments, and glasses, were distributed to 13 Chinese institutions in July following a first round of applications, Space.com reported.  

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  NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter captures Mars rock feature in 3D

  September 19, 2021 20:45 IST

  The mini-helicopter flew to the red planet on February 18 while being attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.  

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  SpaceX tourists' 3-day trip to orbit ends with splashdown in Atlantic off Florida coast

  September 19, 2021 7:05 IST

  SpaceX’s fully automated Dragon capsule reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles (585 kilometers) after Wednesday night’s liftoff.

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  China astronauts return after 90 days aboard space station

  September 17, 2021 13:32 IST

  China has sent 14 astronauts into space since 2003, when it became only the third country after the former Soviet Union and the United States to do so on its own.   

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  Thousands of massive, ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars: NASA

  September 16, 2021 20:22 IST

  Spewing water vapour, carbon dioxide, and sulphur dioxide into the air, these explosions tore through the Martian surface about 4 billion years ago, according to scientists' estimates, reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.  

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  SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip

  September 16, 2021 16:26 IST

  It’s SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars. Isaacman is the third billionaire to launch this summer, following the brief space-skimming flights by Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in July.

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  Astronomers capture best images yet of peculiar 'dog-bone' asteroid

  September 12, 2021 23:38 IST

  The observations have allowed the team to constrain the 3D shape and mass of this peculiar asteroid, which resembles a dog bone, to a higher accuracy than ever before. Their research also provides clues as to how this asteroid and the two moons that orbit it formed.  

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  Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads made discovery-class findings ISRO

  September 10, 2021 14:56 IST

  The observations of the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads have yielded discovery-class findings, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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  Scientists measure magnetic field of eruption from Sun's atmosphere

  September 09, 2021 23:04 IST

  The study of the phenomenon happening in the Sun's atmosphere or the solar corona provides insights into its inner workings.  

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  NASA confirms James Webb telescope launch in December

  September 09, 2021 17:49 IST

  Webb, which is touted as the US space agency's next great space observatory, was first targeted to launch in March this year. It was later pushed back to October due to impacts from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, as well as technical challenges.  

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  Smoke alarms sound at International Space Station

  September 09, 2021 15:28 IST

  Russia's space agency Roscosmos said the incident took place in the Russian-built Zvezda module and occurred as the station's batteries were being recharged.  

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  What's driving Delta Covid variant to spread

  September 07, 2021 15:26 IST

  Researchers from National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, under the Ministry of Health; CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, and University of Cambridge in the UK examined how the Delta variant was able to evade the immune response.

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  NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples

  September 07, 2021 13:14 IST

  "For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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  Russia's new space station to use AI, robots

  September 06, 2021 19:02 IST

  Rogozin said the agency aims to develop the new space station with a higher efficiency factor than that of the current International Space Station (ISS).  

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  Over 200 health journals call for emergency action on climate change

  September 06, 2021 18:05 IST

  In a year of Covid-19, the editorial warns that the greatest threat to global public health into the future is the continued failure of world leaders to take adequate action to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius as decided in the UN-mandated Paris Agreement in 2015 and to restore nature.