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‘Like finding an oasis in desert …’: Nasa’s Curiosity rover stuns scientists with discovery of pure sulphur on Mars – Times of India

Nasa's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulphur after driving over and cracking open a rock. This unexpected find has intrigued scientists and renewed interest in Mars' geological history and potential for life, according to Space.com.Previously, Curiosity had detected sulphur on Mars, but only mixed with other minerals like magnesium and calcium.The discovery of pure sulphur, which forms under specific conditions, had not been observed in the rover's current location. According to Nasa, the sulphur seems to be present in many rocks in the region."Finding a field of stones made of pure sulphur is like finding an oasis in the desert," said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "It sh...
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Exploring Nasa’s latest exoplanet marvels: 6 fascinating discoveries unveiled

On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502. From zero exoplanet confirmations to over 5,500 in just a few decades, this new milestone marks another major step in the journey to understand the worlds beyond our solar system.The DiscoveryWith the discovery of six new exoplanets, scientists have tipped the scales and surpassed 5,500 exoplanets found (there are now 5,502 known exoplanets, to be exact).Just about 31 years ago, in 1992, the first exoplanets were confirmed when scientists detected twin planets Poltergeist and Phobetor orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. In March 2022, just last year, scientists celebrated passing 5,000 exop...
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Exploring Nasa’s latest exoplanet marvels: 6 fascinating discoveries unveiled

On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502. From zero exoplanet confirmations to over 5,500 in just a few decades, this new milestone marks another major step in the journey to understand the worlds beyond our solar system.The DiscoveryWith the discovery of six new exoplanets, scientists have tipped the scales and surpassed 5,500 exoplanets found (there are now 5,502 known exoplanets, to be exact).Just about 31 years ago, in 1992, the first exoplanets were confirmed when scientists detected twin planets Poltergeist and Phobetor orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. In March 2022, just last year, scientists celebrated passing 5,000 exop...
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Nasa: Meteor soars over Statue of Liberty, burns up above Manhattan – Times of India

A meteor soared over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating about 30 miles above Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, according to Nasa. The space rock passed through the atmosphere over the Big Apple around 11:15am, coinciding with reports from New Yorkers who saw a flash of fire streak across the sky and felt the ground lightly shaking beneath their feet.The "daylight fireball" traveled from the Statue of Liberty to Midtown Manhattan around noon. Twenty people across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut reported seeing the fireball stretch across the sky, with one witness describing the shooting star as illuminated in green, yellow, and white, a New York Post report said.The spectacle lasted about 30 seconds before fragmenting into three pieces, according to an eyewitness repor...
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Sunita Williams Sends Message To Earth Amid Worries Over Boeing Starliner’s Return From Space

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who are currently stranded on the International Space Station (ISS), have expressed confidence that the Boeing Starliner spacecraft will safely bring them to Earth despite facing significant technical issues. Originally slated to spend eight days on the orbiting space laboratory, the astronauts reached the ISS on June 6. However, their return was delayed due to thruster malfunctions and helium leaks discovered in their spacecraft during their journey. During a live press call from the station recently, mission commander Wilmore expressed 'absolute confidence' in the Starliner team and spacecraft for their safe return to Earth. He noted that “failure is not an option,” and said, “that’s why we are staying...
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‘Nightmare world’: Jupiter-sized planet, which is 64 light-years from Earth, reeks of rotten eggs – Times of India

HD 189733 b, an exoplanet located 64 light-years from Earth, has been found to have an atmosphere that smells like rotten eggs, according to a recent study published in the journal Nature. The planet, which is a gas giant similar in size to Jupiter, has trace amounts of hydrogen sulfide in its atmosphere, causing an unpleasant odour.HD 189733 b is classified as a hot Jupiter planet, meaning it is a gas giant with extremely high temperatures due to its close proximity to its star.The planet orbits its star in just 2.2 days, resulting in a surface temperature of 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit. In contrast, Jupiter, the gas giant in our solar system, takes about 12 Earth years to orbit the sun.NASA has described HD 189733 b as a "nightmare world" and a "killer you never see coming." The planet's...
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Here’s Where Congress Wants To Send ‘Non-Biological’ PM Before Space

The Congress on Thursday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the ‘non-biological Pradhan Mantri’ should go to violence-hit Manipur before going into the space. This comes after Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) chief S Somnath recently suggested that PM Modi could be a candidate for India's first manned space mission. "Before He goes into space, the non-biological Pradhan Mantri should go to Manipur,” Ramesh wrote on X (formally Twitter). A media report quoted Somnath as saying that the Prime Minister can be the candidate for 'Gaganyan', which is slated to be launched in 2025. "While he (PM Modi) certainly has many other, more critical responsibilities, developing a human spaceflight program is a capability we would like to cult...
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Russian Satellite Explosion Creates Hazardous Debris Near ISS Where Sunita Williams Is Stuck

The defunct Russian satellite RESURS-P1 has disintegrated into over 100 pieces, creating a significant hazard in low-Earth orbit. The explosion forced astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including Sunita Williams, to seek temporary refuge in their spacecraft on Wednesday, according to NASA. The event took place at an altitude of approximately 355 kilometres (220 miles) above Earth, around 10 a.m. Mountain Time (1600 GMT). The US space agency promptly ordered the ISS crew to shelter as a precautionary measure against potential collisions with the newly formed debris, The Independent reported. There are immediate dangers posed by the sudden disintegration of the satellite, which Russia had declared non-operational in 2022. The reason b...
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Russian satellite breaks up in Space, forces ISS astronauts to shelter – Times of India

A Russian Earth observation satellite, RESURS-P1, which was declared dead in 2022, has disintegrated into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit. The break-up occurred on Wednesday, near the International Space Station (ISS), causing the astronauts on board to take shelter in their spacecraft for about an hour as a precautionary measure. US Space Command stated that there was no immediate threat to other satellites.The cause of the satellite's break-up is currently unknown, and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has not provided any comments on the incident.LeoLabs, a US space-tracking firm, detected the satellite releasing fragments until 6 pm Mountain Time. US Space Command confirmed that the event generated "over 100 pieces of trackable debris."Large debris-generating events in orbit...
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Widespread lava lakes discovered on Jupiter’s moon Io by Nasa’s Juno – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Nasa's Juno probe, utilising the Italian Space Agency’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument, has provided unprecedented insights into the volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io. The findings, published on June 20 in Nature Communications Earth and Environment, include the detection of widespread lava lakes and new details about volcanic processes.Io has fascinated astronomers since its discovery by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Nasa's Voyager 1 revealed the first volcanic eruption on Io in 1979, and subsequent missions confirmed that Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Despite numerous theories about Io's volcanic activity, concrete data has been scarce.In May and October of 2023, Juno performed close flybys of Io, coming within 21,700 miles ...
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IIAS to send 3 more research astronauts on Virgin Galactic’s Delta – Times of India

BENGALURU: Virgin Galactic Holdings, Thursday announced a new contract with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) to fly three research astronauts aboard the company’s next generation Delta Class spaceship. This will be the second research mission IIAS has conducted with Virgin Galactic, building on their previous Galactic 05 flight in November 2023.The upcoming mission aims to further IIAS’ research on fluid behaviour in microgravity, with potential applications for future medical technologies and life support systems. Leading the IIAS crew will be astronaut Kellie Gerardi, who previously validated a fluid behaviour theory during Galactic 05.“The quality microgravity provided by Virgin Galactic is truly game-changing. We'll expand on our fluid cell experiment, w...
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‘Located on sea of cooled volcanic rock’: Nasa moon orbiter captures Chinese spacecraft on lunar far side – Times of India

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured its first glimpse of the Chinese Chang'e 6 spacecraft, which is currently situated on the far side of the moon, the spacecraft appears as a small group of bright pixels in the center of the image taken by the LRO on June 7, 2024.The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured images of China's Chang'e 6 sample-return spacecraft on the lunar far side, five days after its successful landing, as per Nasa reports.The landing site of Chang'e 6 is located on a mare unit, which is a "sea" of cooled volcanic rock, situated at the southern edge of the Apollo basin. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team determined the precise landing site coordinates to be minus 41.6385 degrees north latitude and 206.0148 degrees east longitude, at ...
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Nasa restores Voyager 1: Months after going dark, spacecraft transmits data on outer planets – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Nasa has successfully restored Voyager 1 to working order several months after it encountered a grave computer problem. The spacecraft, which has been transmitting data about the outer planets and the far reaches of the solar system for nearly fifty years, faced a significant issue that threatened its mission.“The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space,” Nasa announced, bringing relief and joy to the space community.The problem, which emerged in November, involved the spacecraft's ability to send coherent engineering and science data back to Earth. Engineers spent months diagnosing and resolving the issue. This process was particularly challenging due to the nearly two-day communication delay with Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles from E...
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NASA warns that a 98ft plane-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth soon | – Times of India

NASA’s vigilant eyes in the sky have detected an asteroid, designated as 2024 LB4, that is projected to make a close approach to Earth. This asteroid, comparable in size to a commercial airliner at approximately 98 feet in diameter, is on a trajectory that will bring it within 1,800,000 miles of our planet. The anticipated date of this encounter is June 16, 2024, a day when the asteroid will zip past Earth at a staggering speed of 7.59 kilometers per second.The discovery and tracking of 2024 LB4 are part of NASA’s ongoing efforts to monitor Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that could potentially pose a threat to our world. While the term ‘plane-sized’ might evoke images of a catastrophic impact, it’s important to understand the context and scale of space. The distance at which 2024 LB4 will pa...
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SpaceX Successfully Conducts 4th Flight Test Of Starship, It Splashes Down In Indian Ocean

SpaceX successfully conducted the fourth flight test of Starship, the largest and most powerful launch system in the world, on June 6, 2024, at 6:20 pm IST. Designed and built by SpaceX, which is a Hawthorne-based aerospace firm, Starship was launched from Starbase in Texas. Starbase is one of the world's first commercial spaceports designed for orbital missions, and is the site for development and manufacturing of Starship.  The fully integrated Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket Source link
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