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NASA rover Perseverance collects first Martian rock sample

Sep 12, 2021 - 8:41 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NASA‘s Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the US space agency hopes to retrieve from the surface of the Red Planet for analysis on Earth. […]

Nasa scientists spot unusual set of rings around black hole with companion star

Aug 14, 2021 - 7:09 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Astronomers have spotted a spectacular set of rings around a black hole in an image captured using Nasa‘s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Nasa said that the X-ray images of the giant […]

Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract

Jul 30, 2021 - 8:23 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Seattle (TIP): Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the U.S. space agency awards his company Blue Origin a […]

Hubble finds first evidence of water vapour on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

Jul 30, 2021 - 8:21 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Washington (TIP): Astronomers have uncovered the first evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede by using new and archival datasets from NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope. According to the study published in […]

“Best day ever as Jeff Bezos endshis ride into space on own rocket

Jul 23, 2021 - 8:21 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

DALLAS (TIP): Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, went to space and back Tuesday, July 20 morning on an 11-minute, supersonic joy ride aboard the rocket and capsule system developed by his space company, Blue […]

NASA captures a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4680

Jun 19, 2021 - 10:06 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NASA has shared a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4680 in all its glory. The image is said to have been taken by the Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The NGC 4680 galaxy […]

NASA’s Juno sends 1st images of Jupiter’s largest moon

Jun 11, 2021 - 11:38 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

After flying closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, NASA‘s Juno spacecraft has sent back two images offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb. During the flyby on June […]

NASA’s Venus missions to probe divergent fate of Earth’s hothouse sister planet

Jun 6, 2021 - 2:40 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NASA has announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 – its first in decades – to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth’s so-called sister planet and […]

Mars Curiosity Rover snaps shining clouds on Red Planet

Jun 6, 2021 - 2:34 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NASA‘s Mars Curiosity rover has captured shining clouds on the Red Planet, which arrived earlier and formed higher than expected. The atmosphere on Mars is usually thin, dry and cloudy days are rare. And clouds […]

NASA astronaut successfully harvests 2 plants in space

May 2, 2021 - 10:36 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Washington (TIP): NASA’s Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins has harvested two crops in space—‘Amara mustard, and a previously grown crop, ‘Extra Dwarf pak choi. They were grown for 64 days, the longest leafy greens […]

In a first, NASA’s Perseverance rover makes oxygen on Mars

Apr 24, 2021 - 7:57 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NASA‘s Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday, April […]

Indian American engineer behind NASA’s Ingenuity’s historic Mars flight

Apr 23, 2021 - 10:04 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

HOUSTON (TIP): An Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras trained Indian American robotics technologist Bob Balaram is the man behind Monday, April 19 history making flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on the Red Planet. […]

Mars did not dry up all at once, says study

Apr 12, 2021 - 8:17 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Mars had drier and wetter eras before drying up completely about three billion years ago, says a new study which suggests that the Red Planet did not dry up all at once. The findings are […]

NASA exchanges data of its Mars mission with India, China

Apr 3, 2021 - 8:58 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

The US space agency NASA has exchanged data of its current Mars mission with its counterparts in China, India, the UAE and the European Space Agency to lower the risk of a collision as their […]

Mars may be hiding most of its ‘missing’ water underground: NASA-funded study

Mar 20, 2021 - 5:51 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

Vast amounts of ancient water may have been trapped beneath the surface of Mars, according to a NASA-funded study which challenges the current theory that the Red Planet’s water escaped into space. Evidence found on […]

Empowered Women Empower Women: CII Hosts Women Leaders in the US-India Corridor to Reflect on International Women’s Day 2021

Mar 19, 2021 - 7:48 am EDT @theindpanorama 0

NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) brought together leaders within the US – India partnership to discuss innovative and empowering solutions to daily challenges […]