London: Three Indians, two women and one man, have made it to the list of 100 applicants who will move on to the next round of an ambitious private mission that aims to send four people on a one-way trip to Mars in 2024. From the initial 202,586 applicants, only 100 hopefuls have been selected […]
New Delhi : A day after ISRO’s Mangalyaan reached the Mars orbit, the spacecraft has sent the very first image whose caption reads, “The view is nice up here.” India scripted space history on Wednesday as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully inserted its low-cost Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft, or Mangalyaan, into an […]
Kasargod: On the unique occasion of celebrating a century of useful existence as an educational institution from a secondary school, High school and developing in to a college now the Neerchalu Mahajana Sanskrit college has trained generations of students in what was Kasargod taluk and later became Kasargod district in Kerala inaugurating the centenary celebrations […]
Los Angeles : NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars, which scientists say could have been a perfect spot for tiny primitive organisms to flourish if they ever existed on the red planet. The watering hole near the Martian equator existed about 3.5 billion years ago around the time […]
Beijing: Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported. Four kinds of vegetables were grown in an “ecological life support system”, a 300 cubic metre cabin which will allow astronauts to develop their own stocks of air, water […]
Washington: Researchers have found evidence of sufficiently warm water on Mars, a proof that the Red Planet may have supported life. New study by the University of Leicester and The Open University into evidence of water on Mars, found that hydrothermal fractures around Martian impact craters may have been a habitable environment for microbial life. […]
Cape kyanaveral: NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving, NASA scientists said. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence — images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels — is the first of its […]
Pasadena, California: The Curiosity has landed. With pride, relief and exhilaration, NASA engineers and officials erupted in cheers and hugs early Monday morning with confirmation that the Curiosity, a car-sized, plutonium-powered robotic rover, had landed safely on the surface of Mars. “Touchdown confirmed,” Allen Chen, the engineer in the control room providing commentary, said at […]
