Mars
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Mars to come closest to Earth in 15 years next month
Jun 18, 2018, 01:20 PM ISTStar gazers could have a good view of the Red Planet next month as Mars is set to come to the closest point to Earth since 2003 when it reaches opposition with the Sun in late July.
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NASA's Mars rover 'Opportunity' stalled by massive dust storm
Jun 14, 2018, 03:58 PM ISTThe storm was first detected on May 30 and grew worse in recent days.
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NASA set to reveal new discovery on Mars by Curiosity rover
Jun 07, 2018, 12:36 PM ISTNASA has not yet provided clues on what the new results are about, but it said that during the event, NASA scientists will have chats with the the public and media on the findings, public can send questions on social media.
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Boring Company’s tunneling technology to help humans settle on Mars: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell
May 24, 2018, 11:44 PM ISTGwynne Shotwell further noted that the Boring Company could actually be how we house people on Mars, adding Tesla’s expertise in battery technology had already found a home inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.
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NASA's InSight Mars lander all set for launch from California and not Florida: All you need to know
May 03, 2018, 06:25 AM ISTNASA will launch its InSight Mission on May 5, the first-ever mission to study the structure of Mars.
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Lakes on Mars dried up 3.5 billionn years ago, found a study
Apr 23, 2018, 02:46 PM ISTIn early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, which was filled by lakes 3.5 billion years ago.
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NASA set for historic first Mars-bound mission: 5 things that you should know
Apr 11, 2018, 02:51 PM ISTThe first interplanetary launch will take place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on May 5 with the Mars-bound InSight lander.
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NASA all set for historic first Mars-bound mission
Apr 10, 2018, 12:53 PM ISTThe objective of the mission is to study the deep interior of the Red Planet and find traces of how it was formed.
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Orange snow transforms eastern Europe into 'Mars'. Pictures go viral
Trending | Mar 26, 2018, 06:30 PM ISTPictures from the mountainous regions of Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and Romania give a glimpse of Mars.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission to return a piece of meteorite that fell on Earth in 1999
Feb 15, 2018, 07:16 AM ISTSaU008 will be the first Martian meteorite to have a fragment return to the planet’s surface.
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Can top-secret US satellite launched by SpaceX send 'unknown group' mystery messages?
Jan 03, 2018, 02:16 PM ISTAs per a report, the satellite will be launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket between 8 to 10 pm.
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Will humans be able to handle a three-year trip to Mars?, NASA to explore
Dec 29, 2017, 12:40 PM ISTThe US space agency hopes that such research will help it understand, prevent, diagnose, treat, mitigate and cure the potential health effects of prolonged spaceflight.
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Elon Musk all set to send his Tesla Roadster car to Mars; see pics
Dec 28, 2017, 01:58 PM ISTSpaceX has released pictures of a Tesla Roadster sports car mounted on a large cone inside the Falcon Heavy – the world’s most powerful rocket – that will launch as soon as next month.
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Donald Trump wants to send man back to moon, on to Mars
Dec 12, 2017, 08:23 AM ISTThe move, Trump said, "marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 for long-time exploration."
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Despite absence of Earth-like magnetic dipole, Mars atmosphere well protected from solar wind: Study
Dec 11, 2017, 06:20 PM ISTAccording to a new research, present-day Mars is a cold and dry planet with less than one per cent of Earths atmospheric pressure at the surface.
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Mars 2020 mission performs first supersonic parachute test, says NASA
Nov 21, 2017, 07:15 AM ISTThe mission will rely on a special parachute to slow the spacecraft down as it enters the Martian atmosphere at over 5.4 km per second.
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NASA testing energy tech to 'empower' human crews on Mars
Nov 17, 2017, 08:33 PM ISTThe pioneering Kilopower reactor represents a small and simple approach for long-duration, Sun-independent electric power for space or extraterrestrial surfaces.
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Over 1.3 lakh Indians ‘book ticket’ to travel to Mars in 2018
Nov 12, 2017, 10:13 PM ISTMore than 1.3 lakh Indian space enthusiasts have submitted their names to NASA to be carried to Mars onboard the US space agency’s mission to the red planet next year.
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NASA’s InSight mission to carry over one lakh Indian names to Mars
Nov 09, 2017, 01:13 PM ISTOver one lakh Indians have signed up for their names to be carried to Mars by NASA's InSight lander.
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Watch: Russian boy claims he lived on Mars before rebirth on Earth, says he’s on a ‘special mission’
Nov 07, 2017, 09:05 PM ISTIn a claim that has baffled scientists across the world, a Russian youth says that he lived on Mars before he was reborn on Earth.