Monday, March 27, 2023

Mars

Mars is real mighty in 1st James Webb observations of Red Planet

 NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first images and spectra of Mars that show a region of the planets eastern hemisphere at two different wavelengths, or colours of infrared light. Whereas the images show differences in brightness integrated...

NASA lander ‘hears’ first impact sounds of space rocks on Mars

NASA's InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars. A new paper published...

Mars has dark green landscape too, discovers NASA rover

Not just red rocks and craters we saw in the popular science fiction film 'The Martian' starring Matt Damon, Mars has several volcanic rocks composed of large grains of olivine -- the muddier less-gemlike version of peridot that tints...

ISRO plans mission to Venus, eyes Dec 2024 launch window

After sending missions to the Moon and Mars, ISRO is now readying a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the hottest planet in the solar system and also unravel the mysteries under the...

NASA’s Perseverance completes 1st year on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully completed the first year since touching down on Mars on February 18, 2021.Weighing roughly 1,025 kgs, Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to safely land on Mars, and also return with dramatic videos of...