Mars
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Beauty with brain & bindi becomes new idiom after Dr Mohan landed NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars
Trending | Feb 19, 2021, 09:12 PM ISTOn 19 February 2021, NASA has successfully landed its Perseverance rover on Mars. Among the scientists who are part of this historic mission, Indian-American Dr Swati Mohan spearheaded the development of attitude control and the landing system for the rover.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover lands on Mars, Indian-origin scientist Swati Mohan leads mission
News | Feb 19, 2021, 10:36 PM ISTNASA's largest and most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, successfully touched down on the Martian surface on Friday, in a nail-biting landing that marks its first step in the search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. And guess, who was at the centre of this ambitious step? Indian-American scientist Swati Mohan played a pivotal role in the historic event. Watch video as India TV's Nidhi Taneja sheds light on the newsmaking event.
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NASA’s Perseverance lands on Mars - 9 rovers that have touched down on Red Planet - FULL LIST
Science | Feb 19, 2021, 01:59 PM ISTThe United States is the only country that has operated a rover on Mars' surface. NASA has sent 9 rovers to Mars.
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NASA's Perseverance rover lands safely on Mars
News | Feb 19, 2021, 09:26 AM ISTA NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.
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Who is Swati Mohan? Meet the Indian origin lady who landed NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars
Science | Feb 19, 2021, 01:02 PM ISTSwati Mohan is an Indian-American NASA scientists. She was the one who confirmed the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18.
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NASA rover lands on Mars, to look for signs of ancient life
Science | Feb 19, 2021, 01:02 PM ISTA NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.
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NASA rover streaks toward a landing on Mars. Where to watch live streaming
Science | Feb 18, 2021, 10:15 PM ISTA NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance to touch down in Jezero Crater today
Science | Feb 18, 2021, 03:34 PM ISTLanding on Mars is difficult. Only about 50 per cent of all previous Mars landing attempts have succeeded.
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NASA's first Mars sample collection mission prepares to land
Science | Feb 15, 2021, 08:27 PM ISTThe rover will characterise the planet's geology and past climate and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
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UAE probe sends first image of Mars to national space agency
Science | Feb 14, 2021, 07:50 PM ISTThe Emirates Mars Mission is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency uncrewed space exploration mission to Mars. The Hope spacecraft was launched on July 19 last year and reached Mars on February 9 this year.
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Chinese spacecraft nearing Mars, world’s second in 2 days
Science | Feb 10, 2021, 04:16 PM ISTA Chinese spacecraft appears poised to enter orbit around Mars, one day after an orbiter from the United Arab Emirates did so and about a week ahead of an American attempt to put down another spacecraft on the surface of the red planet.
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UAE spacecraft enters orbit around Mars in historic flight
Science | Feb 09, 2021, 10:55 PM ISTA spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates swung into orbit around Mars on Tuesday in a triumph for the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.
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UAE's 'Hope' probe set to reach Mars orbit today
Science | Feb 09, 2021, 10:43 AM ISTThe United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars, the "Hope" probe is set to reach the Red Planet's orbit on Tuesday.
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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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China's space probe captures first image of Mars
Science | Feb 07, 2021, 08:13 AM ISTChina's space probe Tianwen-1 has sent back the first image of Mars that it captured from a distance of 2.2 million km from the Red Planet.
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NASA plans to launch Mars ice mapping mission
Science | Feb 05, 2021, 08:03 AM ISTNASA, in collaboration with three international partners, is planning to launch a robotic Mars ice mapping mission, which could help the agency identify potential science objectives for initial human missions to Mars.
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NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars next month
Science | Jan 31, 2021, 05:05 PM ISTLaunched on July 30 last year, the rover is currently closing that distance at 2.5 kilometres per second, NASA said.
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400 mln km within 163 days, China's Mars probe heads for red planet
Science | Jan 03, 2021, 02:42 PM ISTSo far, the Mars probe had flown in space for 163 days. It was about 130 million km from Earth and about 8.3 million km from Mars, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
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How NASA is planning to bring Mars samples back to Earth
Science | Dec 18, 2020, 03:48 PM ISTNASA has approved the Mars Sample Return (MSR) multi-mission effort to advance to the next phase in preparation to bring the first pristine samples from Mars back to Earth.
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Novel system can extract oxygen, fuel from salty water on Mars
Science | Dec 01, 2020, 03:54 PM ISTA team led by an Indian-origin scientist in the US has developed a new system that can extract oxygen and hydrogen fuel from the salty water on Mars, and may radically change the logistics of future missions to the Red Planet and beyond.