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  Super Blood Moon 2021: How to click pictures of moon using your smartphone

  Technology | May 25, 2021 14:02 IST

  The Super Blood Moon 2021 will create stunning views tomorrow, May 26. Here's how you can click pictures using your smartphone.

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  NASA rover to search for water, other resources on Moon in 2023

  Science | May 22, 2021 16:30 IST

  The US space agency has announced its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface.

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  '50,000 photos, 40 hours': How 16-year-old boy captured 'clearest' moon pic

  Science | May 19, 2021 18:36 IST

  A 16-year-old claims to have captured the "clearest" picture of the last quarter mineral Moon. It took him nearly 40 hours to process about 50,000 photos. Pune-based Prathamesh Jaju, who became an internet sensation after his picture went viral, calls himself an "amateur astronomer".   

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  Pink Super Moon 2021: Chaitra Purnima timing, click pictures and more

  Technology | April 26, 2021 13:21 IST

  The Pink Super Moon is said to make its appearance on April 26, 2021. 

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  NASA to land first person of colour on Moon

  Science | April 10, 2021 8:58 IST

  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will land the first person of colour on the moon as part of an international spaceflight program called Artemis, according to the US space agency.

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  NASA's Artemis Moon rocket passes key test

  Science | March 19, 2021 12:41 IST

  NASA has completed a crucial hot fire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket which is designed to power future Moon missions under the agency's Artemis programme.

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  Want to fly to moon? Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is offering trip on Elon Musk's SpaceX

  March 03, 2021 17:45 IST

  Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa, has invited eight people from around the world to join him for a private lunar expedition. Want to be one of his 'crew'?

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  China's lunar rover travels 652.62 meters on moon's far side

  Science | February 20, 2021 15:35 IST

  The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have been switched to dormant mode for the lunar night after working stably for the 27th lunar day, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.

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  Moon rock, collected in 1972, now on display in Oval office after Biden's request

  World | January 22, 2021 17:02 IST

  NASA has loaned a Moon rock for display in the Oval Office of the White House at the request of the Joe Biden administration.

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  Ajmer man gifts plot of land on Moon to wife on wedding anniversary

  India | December 27, 2020 8:54 IST

  Many people dream of owning a piece of the Moon and that dream became a reality for Ajmer's Sapna Anija when her husband Dharmendra Anija gifted her three acres of land on the celestial body on their wedding anniversary.

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  Researchers identify over 109,000 impact craters on moon

  Science | December 26, 2020 11:00 IST

  An international team of researchers has identified over 109,000 previously unrecognised impact craters on the moon using machine learning methods.

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  China’s space probe brought 1,731 grams of samples from the moon

  Science | December 19, 2020 19:15 IST

  China's Chang'e-5 probe, which successfully returned to earth this week, has retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, the country's space agency said on Saturday.

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  China: Moon probe preparing to return rock samples to Earth

  Science | December 03, 2020 17:15 IST

  ​China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in more than 40 years.  

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  China says probe sent to retrieve lunar rocks lands on moon

  Science | December 01, 2020 22:28 IST

  A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s landed on the moon Tuesday, the government announced, adding to a string of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing.

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  Plumes on Europa could come from water in Jupiter moon's crust

  Science | November 15, 2020 23:14 IST

  Plumes of water vapour that may be venting into space from Jupiter's moon Europa could come from within the icy crust itself, according to new research.

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  Twitterati explode with memes after NASA confirms water's presence on moon

  Trending | October 27, 2020 20:07 IST

  Using NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the researchers, including those from the University of Hawaii in the US, detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater -- one of the largest craters visible from the Earth, located in the Moon's southern hemisphere. As soon as the news spread, people on social media went all crazy and shared memes and jokes making it a fun day on Twitter.

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  NASA confirms presence of water on sunlit surface of Moon

  Science | October 27, 2020 7:35 IST

  NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed the presence of water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. In a statement, the American space agency has said this discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.

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  NASA to announce new discovery about Moon on Monday

  Science | October 24, 2020 17:59 IST

  NASA will announce an exciting new discovery about the Moon from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at a presser at 12 pm EDT Monday, October 26.

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  Moon once shared magnetic field with Earth, protecting atmosphere

  Science | October 15, 2020 17:23 IST

  The Moon played a huge role in the evolution of life on Earth as a new study suggests that our natural satellite once had a magnetic field that helped shield our home planet from harmful solar radiation during a critical early time.

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  NASA moon-landing tech hitches ride to space on Bezos rocket

  Science | October 13, 2020 21:56 IST

  Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company launched a New Shepard rocket for a seventh time from a remote corner of Texas on Tuesday, testing new lunar-landing technology for NASA that could help put astronauts back on the moon by 2024.