Moon
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Human urine could help make concrete on moon: European Space Agency
Science | May 08, 2020, 08:47 PM ISTThe European Space Agency said Friday that human urine could one day become a useful ingredient in making concrete to build on the moon.
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Supermoon 2020: Bollywood celebs share beautiful photos of year's last super flower moon
Trending | May 07, 2020, 11:39 PM ISTSupermoon or 'super flower moon' will appear from Thursday evening till Friday morning. During this time, the moon appeared bigger and brighter than usual as it was near perigee -- the closest approach of the moon to the Earth.
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Live Streaming, Super Flower Moon 2020: Watch the final supermoon of 2020 tomorrow. Check details
Science | May 06, 2020, 09:26 PM ISTGet ready to witness Super Flower Moon 2020 on May 7. The beautiful celestial event will grace the night skies on Thursday, a keepsake memory in the grim corona times. The supermoon is going to be the last supermoon of the year 2020. If you are not able to watch Super Flower Moon Live, then you may catch the view online.
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First detailed colour-coded geological map of Moon for scientists released
Science | May 04, 2020, 11:31 AM ISTThe United States Geological Survey (USGS) has released a 1:5,000,000 scale map recently which reveals a lot about the surface of the Moon. It is colour-coded for scientists, researchers and lunar enthusiasts to easily study the Moon’s surface and it can also aid future research projects involving the Moon.
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Moon for sale: Buy piece of one lunar meteorite for just $2.5 million
Science | May 01, 2020, 09:20 AM ISTChristie's Auctions & Private Sales on Thursday announced that one of the world's largest lunar meteorites will be on private sale valued at 2 million pounds ($2.49 million). The moon rock, weighing over 13.5 kg, was probably struck off the surface of the moon by a collision with an asteroid or comet and then showered down on the Sahara desert.
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NASA CubeSat to search for ice on Moon's surface using lasers
Science | Apr 28, 2020, 09:15 PM ISTThe US space agency is planning to send a small satellite about the size of a briefcase -- also known as a CubeSat which will use lasers for the first time to detect naturally occurring surface ice believed to be at the bottom of craters on the Moon that have never seen sunlight.
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Ramzan 2020: Moon sighted, fasting to begin in India on Saturday; PM Modi extends greetings
India | Apr 24, 2020, 11:09 PM ISTRamzan 2020: The moon has been sighted, announcing the onset of Ramzan -- the holy month of fasting. Both the Shia and Sunni moon committees confirmed sighting the moon and said that the first Roza of the month will be on April 25.
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Super Pink Moon 2020: All you need to know
Science | Apr 07, 2020, 10:59 AM ISTIn India, the super pink moon will appear on Wednesday morning at around 8:10 am. The super moon occurs when the distance between earth and moon is minimum making the moon appear much brighter and bigger.
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Super Pink Moon 2020 will be visible in April: Date, time, how to watch brightest, biggest full moon
Lifestyle | Apr 04, 2020, 12:13 PM ISTApril's full Moon falls with the early springtime of certain wildflowers native to eastern North America that are also called 'moss pink'. Thus, the name 'Pink' refers to the pink flower that blossoms during this time and not the colour of the moon.
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NASA accepting applications for aspiring Moon explorers
Science | Mar 03, 2020, 09:05 PM ISTAs NASA prepares to send the first woman and next man to the Moon with the Artemis programme, the agency, for the first time in more than four years, has begun accepting applications for future astronauts.
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Earth has a new mini-moon; and it's there since 3 years
Science | Feb 27, 2020, 11:22 AM ISTOur new moon is probably between 1.9 and 3.5 metres across, or roughly the size of a car, making it no match for Earth’s primary moon. It circles our planet about once every 47 days on a wide, oval-shaped orbit that mostly swoops far outside the larger moon’s path.
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NASA hiring more astronauts to explore Moon, Mars
Science | Feb 13, 2020, 06:34 PM ISTAs NASA prepares to land the first woman and the next man on the South Pole of the Moon by 2024 under its Artemis programme and then send humans to Mars, the US space agency wants to hire more astronauts.
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Inner complexity in Saturn moon 'Enceladus' hints at habitable conditions
Science | Jan 23, 2020, 10:41 AM ISTThe likely presence of hydrothermal vents inside Enceladus could be seen as another phenomenon that contributes to this. At Earth's ocean floor, hydrothermal vents emit hot, energy-rich, mineral-laden fluids that allow unique ecosystems teeming with unusual creatures to thrive.
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NASA building homes made of fungi for Moon, Mars
Science | Jan 17, 2020, 09:24 PM ISTInstead of habitats made of metal and glass, NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi to become our future homes in the stars, and perhaps lead to more sustainable ways of living on Earth as well.
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Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari in programme with eyes on Moon, Mars
Science | Jan 11, 2020, 10:32 AM ISTAn Indian-American will be among astronauts who may get a chance to go to the moon or Mars following his graduation from NASA's programme to train astronauts for those missions and the International Space Station.
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Wolf moon eclipse on January 10: Where to watch, timing of the first lunar eclipse of 2020
Science | Jan 07, 2020, 07:57 AM ISTWolf moon eclipse: January 10 (Friday) is going to be a wolf moon eclipse night as we approach towards one of the four lunar eclipses in 2020. It is going to be a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse when the earth will come between Sun and Moon.
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Moon had its own magnetic field billion years ago, twice as strong as the Earth
Science | Jan 02, 2020, 07:36 PM ISTWe all know that the Earth has its own magnetic field. But have we heard the same for the moon? Not until now. Scientists believe that a lunar magnetic field existed a billion years ago and was twice as strong as the earth's field today.
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Cold Moon 2019: Tonight is the last full Moon night of the decade - What is a Cold Moon?
Fyi | Dec 12, 2019, 10:34 PM ISTWe've heard of Full Moon, Blood Moon and so on. But Cold Moon? Well this might be a new term for some. More on that in this article,
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Chandrayaan-2's Terrain Camera captures 3D view of crater on Moon
Science | Nov 13, 2019, 11:53 PM ISTChandrayaan-2's Terrain Mapping Camera has captured a three-dimensional (3D) view of a crater on the Moon. The imaged 3D view was posted by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday.
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ISRO releases pictures of impact craters on Moon
Science | Oct 24, 2019, 11:04 AM ISTThis image presents many interesting facts about the secondary craters of different ages and origins in the lunar south polar region, the space agency said. According to ISRO, the image shows craters of vertical impact and oblique impact on the top-right and bottom-right, respectively.