New Delhi: 1st of August 1969 was the day when the world got to see the Red Planet Mars in pictures. NASA received close-up photos of Mars on that day. These photos were sent by Mariner 6. Mariner 6 was the part of the NASA’s dual mission to Mars programme The launch of Mariner 6 […]
New York: A team of researchers led by Nikku Madhusudhan of Yale University has discovered a planet orbiting a star 40 light-years away in the Cancer constellation which is presumed to be made of diamond. From its orbit and the size of its host star, the astronomers have calculated its size and mass – its […]
Mangalore: Prof. K. R. Chandrashekar, the chairman of the department of applied botany in Mangalore University said that around two –third of the natures living creatures depend on forest resources, but unfortunately 1030 million square kilometers of forests has been deforested. He was delivering the keynote address at a seminar titled “Trees – Caretakers of […]
