Mars
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New mobile app for a selfie with Mangalyaan
India | Sep 22, 2014, 07:35 AM ISTHyderabad: Hyderabad city-based start-up Smartur has developed a mobile application (app) built on augmented reality that allows users of Android phone and iOS mobile devices to click a selfie with Indian spaceship Mangalyaan that is
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Mars mission: ISRO all set for crucial manoeuvre tomorrow
India | Sep 21, 2014, 02:39 PM ISTBangalore: Ahead of India's Mars orbiter's scheduled rendezvous with the red planet on September 24, ISRO is all set for the crucial fourth trajectory correction manoeuvre and test fire of the main liquid engine on
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NASA spacecraft to reach Mars this weekend
World | Sep 18, 2014, 06:56 AM ISTWashington: US space agency NASA said on Wednesday its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft will enter orbit around the Red Planet this weekend.The spacecraft has completed a 10-month space journey spanning 442 million
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology to test making oxygen on Mars
World | Aug 04, 2014, 02:58 PM ISTWashington: An MIT oxygen-creating instrument will fly on the upcoming Mars 2020 mission to study how to make oxygen out of the Martian atmosphere. NASA has announced the seven instruments that will accompany Mars 2020,
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Giant asteroids wiped out life on early Earth
World | Jul 31, 2014, 04:09 PM ISTWashington: Using a computer simulation model based on a moon crater, planetary scientists have revealed that early Earth is likely to have been hit by giant asteroids capable of killing off life and completely resurfacing
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NASA launches 'flying saucer' to test future Mars landing technologies
World | Jun 30, 2014, 08:13 AM ISTWashington: The space agency launched its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle Saturday from the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai in Hawaii.The test was designed to help NASA engineers
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Mars-bound comet producing loads of water
World | Jun 21, 2014, 01:53 PM ISTWashington: Comet Siding Spring, which will brush very close to Mars later this year, is producing a lot of water - around 50 litres every second - according to NASA."Based on our observations, we calculate
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India's Mars spacecraft to tryst with red planet after 100 days
India | Jun 16, 2014, 08:56 PM ISTBangalore: Exactly 100 days from Monday, India's Mars spacecraft is scheduled for a rendezvous with the red planet as it is rapidly coasting towards its target covering almost 70 per cent of its journey. On
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Robots pave the way for human landing on Mars
May 17, 2014, 06:21 PM ISTWashington: With NASA rovers Curiosity and Opportunity relaying loads of information about the Red Planet, NASA is inching closer to a manned mission to Mars.With each landing on Mars over the past three decades, the
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44 Indians shortlisted for one-way trip to Mars
World | May 08, 2014, 06:06 PM ISTLondon: Forty-four Indians, including 17 women, are among 705 aspirants shortlisted for an ambitious private mission to send four people on a planned one-way trip to Mars in 2024 to colonize the red planet. The
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Solved: Mystery of light on Mars
World | Apr 11, 2014, 06:25 PM ISTNew Delhi: The car sized robotic rover called Curosity Rover who created controversies after it released a picture of a white light spotted on Mars has been clarified.NASA has clarified on the picture that showed
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NASA finds clues to possible water flows on Mars
World | Feb 11, 2014, 10:57 AM ISTWashington: US space agency NASA said Monday its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey orbiter have sent back clues that liquid water may still exist today on the Red Planet.The spacecraft spotted "dark, finger-like markings" that
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You can grow food on Mars, says Researcher
World | Jan 17, 2014, 11:39 AM ISTThe Hague: Growing food on a frozen desert planet with a suffocatingly thin atmosphere, however, will be a challenge. Scientists are now bioengineering plants that can grow on mars.To investigate whether it is possible to
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62 Indians shortlisted for one-way trip to Mars
World | Jan 03, 2014, 11:20 AM ISTLondon: Over 1,000 aspirants, including 62 from India, have been shortlisted for an ambitious private mission to send four men and women on a one-way trip to Mars in 2024 to establish a permanent colony
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Curiosity probe finds evidence of ancient lake on Mars
World | Dec 11, 2013, 10:35 AM ISTWashington: The Curiosity rover has found evidence of an ancient lake on Mars that millions of years ago could have sustained life for long periods of time, NASA said."Quite honestly, it just looks very Earth-like,"
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Mangalyaan travels beyond Earth's Sphere of Influence
India | Dec 04, 2013, 09:23 PM ISTBangalore: India's maiden mission to Mars has traversed beyond the sphere of influence (SOI) of Earth extending about 9,25,000 km in its 10-month long voyage to the red planet.The spacecraft crossed the SOI of Earth
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Nasa aims for Mars, robotic Maven set to soar
World | Nov 18, 2013, 11:47 AM ISTCape Canaveral, Florida: Nasa is headed back to Mars, this time with a robotic scout named Maven that will attempt to solve the mystery of the red planet's radical climate change.Maven is scheduled to blast
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MARS supplementary orbit raising a success, says ISRO
India | Nov 12, 2013, 10:49 AM ISTChennai: A day after suffering a glitch during the fourth orbit raising operation on its Mars Orbiter Mission, the ISRO on Tuesday successfully completed the supplementary manoeuvre, raising the spacecraft's apogee (farthest distance from Earth)
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These 10 companies control almost everything you buy
Nov 06, 2013, 06:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: Recently Reddit released a chart titled "The Illusion of Choice," that showed that most products we buy are controlled by just a few companies.The chart depicts that these corporations create a chain that
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India to make history on Oct 28, Orbiter will leave for Mars
India | Oct 11, 2013, 06:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: The 400-million kilometres, 299-day, Rs. 450-cr voyage to Mars, set to launch on October 28, is also a leap of faith for ISRO. The Mars Orbiter Mission, informally called Mangalyaan is a planned