Mars Exploration
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Rainbow on Mars? ESA reveals stunning pics of 'rusty' red planet, netizens say 'feels like home'
World | Jun 27, 2024, 06:17 PM ISTStunning pictures of the Mars' desert-looking surface were uploaded by the European Space Agency, which showed layers of yellow clays along with white and blue aluminium deposits and dark eroded rock. Mars is one of the most explored planets in the solar system with efforts to find human life there.
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Next stop Mars for UAE, China, NASA as 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession
Science | Feb 08, 2021, 11:27 AM ISTAfter hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars.
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NASA set for mission to seek sign of ancient life on Mars
Science | Jul 13, 2020, 09:15 AM ISTNASA and launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on Sunday that NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, and its Martian helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity, were mated with the Atlas V 541 rocket that will kick off the seven-month journey to the Red Planet.
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NASA to develop robot bees to explore red planet Mars
Apr 04, 2018, 05:27 PM ISTThe Marsbees will fly out from a mobile base – probably a rover like Curiosity – map terrain, take samples and search for signs of life on the red planet.
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Mars has a huge, twisted tail and it could be destroying its atmosphere
Oct 23, 2017, 02:31 PM ISTHere's why the idea of a human colony on the Red Planet could remain nothing but a distant dream.
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UAE launches Rs 890 crore Mars Science City project; to consist lab, museum
Oct 04, 2017, 08:25 PM ISTUAE has launched a Rs 890 crore Mars Science City project to provide a "viable and realistic model" to simulate living on the surface of Mars.
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NASA's 12-year old Opportunity Mars rover all set to explore carved, fluid-filled gully
World | Oct 09, 2016, 09:15 AM ISTNASA's Opportunity Mars rover is all set to drive down the carved, fluid-filled gully that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission, Nasa said. This is the first time
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US, India to collaborate on Mars exploration
World | Oct 01, 2014, 07:07 AM ISTWashington: India and the US, after sending their own respective spacecraft into Mars' orbit, have now agreed to cooperate on future explorations of the Red Planet, which America said will yield ‘tangible benefits' to both
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India scales down Mars mission
India | Jan 06, 2013, 07:19 PM ISTKolkata,Jan 6: India's bid to explore Mars will be a scaled down affair with the space agency flying experimental payload of less than 15 kg as against 25kg planned originally.The Mars Orbiter Mission, expected to
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Curiosity finds whiff of possible life on Mars
World | Dec 04, 2012, 03:43 PM ISTWashington, Dec 4: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found tantalising clues that life may have once existed on the Red planet, but scientists said it was too early to make much of the first soil