Mars
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NASA reveals something new about Mars that affects entire planet
World | Jun 14, 2016, 11:25 AM ISTNew Delhi: While examining the seasonal patterns of Mars, NASA revealed stunning pictures of a seasonal dust storm pattern on the surface of Red Planet. After decades of research NASA scientists discovered three distinct regional
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Mars makes closest approach to Earth in more than a decade: NASA
World | Jun 01, 2016, 04:24 PM ISTWashington: Mars and Earth got unusually cosy drawing closer to each other than they have in more than a decade. The two planets passed at 120.7 million kilometres (75 million miles) away from each other
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Indian team to compete in NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge
Apr 05, 2016, 07:24 AM ISTWashington: A group of Indian students is part of 80 teams that will participate in the US space agency's "Human Exploration Rover Challenge" to help NASA realise its goals for future exploration to Mars and
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NASA, Microsoft team up to bring you closer to Mars
Mar 31, 2016, 10:25 AM ISTWashington:The US space agency and tech giant Microsoft have teamed up to create "Destination: Mars", a guided tour of Mars using the same Hololens headset technology that helps scientists plan the Curiosity rover's activities on
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European, Russian space agencies launch mission to Mars
World | Mar 15, 2016, 07:31 AM ISTEurope and Russia launched a joint mission Monday to explore the atmosphere of Mars and hunt for signs of life on the red planet.
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Be Prepared! Countdown begins to launch mission to find life on Mars
World | Mar 14, 2016, 12:02 PM ISTLondon: The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are set to send a robotic probe to Mars on Monday to find if the planet has traces of alien life.They are
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NASA's new laser technology could send humans to Mars in flat 3 days
Feb 23, 2016, 12:09 PM ISTNew York: For humans to arrive at the Red Planet with the available technology, it will approximately take five months to touch down on the Martian surface. NASA researchers are now working on a new
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NASA's Curiosity Rover clicks a selfie on Mars
World | Jan 30, 2016, 12:34 PM ISTWashington: In its latest selfie sent back home, NASA's Curiosity rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand.The new selfie combines 57 images
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NASA suspends 2016 launch of Mars lander
World | Dec 23, 2015, 09:45 AM ISTWashington: The US space agency NASA said it has suspended the planned launch of a Mars lander called InSight in March 2016 due to unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a French-built seismological instrument."The
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Giant 'Mouse' on Mars spotted by NASA's curiosity rover (Watch Video)
Blah | Dec 01, 2015, 10:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: NASA has released images of 'mouse' captured by its curiosity rover, reported the media.According to media reports, "Rock resembling a small rodent has been spotted by amateur astronomer Joe White, 45, who observed
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Mars' moon Phobos is slowly falling apart
World | Nov 11, 2015, 12:16 PM ISTWashington: The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars.Orbiting a mere 6,000 km above the surface of Mars,
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Sun stripping away Martian atmosphere, left dry planet: NASA
World | Nov 06, 2015, 07:54 AM ISTCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP): NASA's Mars-orbiting Maven spacecraft has discovered that the sun likely robbed the red planet of its once-thick atmosphere and water.On Thursday, scientists reported that even today, the solar wind is stripping
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'Alien Drone' seen on Mars this time (Watch Video)
Blah | Nov 04, 2015, 11:09 AM ISTNew Delhi: This time an alien drone has been spotted on Mars and it was another busy week on the red planet.Last week ‘discoveries' including baby polar bear on Mars and UFO named WT1190F to
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'Baby bear' spotted on Mars; UN to be alerted (Watch Video)
World | Oct 28, 2015, 11:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: UFO-hunters have claimed to find an 'unknown creature like baby polar' on Mars and plan to alert the United Nations (UN) about the finding.The spotted 'creature' has real hair as seen from shadow
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Learn how to grow food on Mars
World | Oct 21, 2015, 01:06 PM ISTWashington: Inspired by astronaut Mark Watney, a character played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in the critically acclaimed movie "The Martian", scientists have published the first case study on how future astronauts can learn to
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Gautam Buddha statue spotted on Mars? (Watch Video)
World | Oct 18, 2015, 07:46 PM ISTNew Delhi: A giant Buddha like statue has been spotted on the planet Mars, as per the claims by UFO Sightings Daily. The photograph is reportedly been captured by NASA's Curiosity rover.According to the report
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Mars pebbles travelled 50 km down a riverbed: Study
World | Oct 14, 2015, 12:02 PM ISTWashington: While the world celebrates the signs of flowing water on Mars, researchers estimate that the Martian pebbles travelled roughly 50 km from their source, supporting the idea that Mars once had an extensive river
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Mars data interesting, more work needed on it: ISRO
India | Oct 05, 2015, 07:39 PM ISTChennai: The Mars Orbiter Mission has produced interesting data but further work is needed over such inputs for validation purposes, a top ISRO official has said."We have got interesting data from the Mars Orbiter Mission
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Imagine home on Mars: Ice shelter design wins NASA award
World | Oct 04, 2015, 11:18 PM ISTNew York: A 3D printed ice shelter designed for Mars, which aims to rely on the red planet's predicted liquid water and low temperatures, has won the first-place award of $25,000 in NASA's Mars habitat
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Eureka! NASA finds flowing water on Mars (Video)
World | Sep 29, 2015, 09:02 AM ISTWashington: In the first-ever definitive signs of the presence of liquid water -- and possibly life -- on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured strong evidence for seasonal flows of liquid