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By Hazel Gandhi Old visuals from the surface of Mars are viral online as clips taken by Chandrayaan-3 on the moon. BOOM found that the claims are false and the clips have been taken by NASA's Perseverance Rover during a separate space mission. Chandrayaan-3 achieved a historic feat on August 23 after landing its Vikram lander and Pragyan rover on the southern surface of the moon. The rover will now undertake a 14-day mission to conduct experiments on the moon's surface and send its findings back on the Earth through the lander. Amid this, two visuals showing a planet are viral online as images...
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By Mohammed Kudrati A video from Mars, that originated from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA's) Curiosity Rover on Mars, is being shared on social media as footage from the moon sent by Chandrayaan-3. The footage that is being shared on social media is a monochrome version of the original. Further, the viral video is not the same as the official videos that have been released of the Chandrayaan-3 mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). On August 23, ISRO successfully landed a land rover named Pragyaan on the southern pole of the moon, making India the first...
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By The Conversation Hugh Hunt , University of Cambridge The experimental airplane X-57, developed by Nasa, is due to fly for the first time this year. It has an impressive 14 propellers along its wings and is powered entirely by electricity. This sounds great considering we have to get off fossil fuels yet our demand for aviation is growing. But how much closer will Nasa’s plane bring us to this goal? Finding an alternative to aviation fuels such as kerosene will be key if we want to continue flying. The X-57 uses lithium batteries to run electric motors for its propellers. But the energy you ...
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By Sana Fazili NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully crashed into asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. This is the space agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space. "After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday," NASA said. The success of the controlled impact was announced by the Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland on Monday 7:14 p.m (GMT-4) Here is all you need to know abou...
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By The Conversation Artemis I will send a rocket without a crew on a monthlong journey around the Moon. The program aims to increase women's participation in space exploration – 30% of its engineers are women. In addition, the Artemis I mission will carry two mannequins designed to study the effects of radiation on women's bodies so that NASA can learn how to protect female astronauts better. Female astronauts are currently less likely to be selected for missions than men because their bodies tend to hit NASA's maximum acceptable threshold of radiation earlier. NASA expects to bring the first ...
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By Sourit Sanyal Back in July 1969, the Apollo 11 mission was launched from Cape Kennedy carrying Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into space. Hundred and nine hours later, Armstrong took humankind's first step onto the moon, followed by "Buzz" Aldrin, 20 minutes later. With "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind", the trio became the first in history to reach the moon. More than 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, NASA is set to launch the rocket project Artemis I for a new mission to the moon. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) will take off on August...
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By The Conversation After decades of development and many trials and frustrations along the way, the James Webb Telescope has finally started to deliver what it came for. On July 12, Nasa released the first science observations made by the suite of instruments carried on board the mission, marking what we eagerly anticipate will be the beginning of a new era in astronomy. After the nail-biting launch on Christmas Day, a series of critical deployments followed to open up the telescope and its sun-shade. If any of these operations had failed, James Webb would have been an unusable disaster. But ...
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By The Conversation Enthusiasts lit up social media recently with images of what appeared to be a "doorway" into a hillside on Mars. Was it, some wondered, evidence that the red planet could be, or have been, inhabited by aliens? The "door" was imaged by Nasa's Curiosity rover on May 7 on the slopes of Mount Sharp, the central massif within Gale crater, where it landed in 2012. Described on one website as a "pharaonic tomb door", because of its resemblance to some ancient Egyptian remains, it is in fact only about one foot high. It is hard to spot on the panoramic image mosaic of the hillside ...
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