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How will NASA's newest rover look for sign of past life on Mars?
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which is slated to touch down in Jezero Crater at around 3.55 p.m. EST on Thursday (2.25 a.m. Friday India time) is tasked with searching for telltale signs that microbial life may have lived on Mars billions of years ago.
NASA's first Mars sample collection mission prepares to land
Known by the team as the "Seven Minutes of Terror," the entry, descent, and landing for Perseverance will be broadcast live as the rover arrives at Mars on February 18.
Comet strike 66 mn years ago killed dinosaurs: Study
Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to an abrupt and calamitous end by triggering their sudden mass extinction, along with the end of almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species living on Earth.
Astronomers discover 3 planets orbiting younger Sun-like star
The system resides in the recently discovered Pisces-Eridanus stream, a collection of stars less than 3 per cent the age of our solar system that stretches across one-third of the sky.
Astronomers discover concentration of small black holes
In an unexpected finding, astronomers have discovered a concentration of smaller black holes, instead of one massive black hole, lurking at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397. Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, which host stars that are closely packed together.
Women career scientists still face gender bias: UNESCO
Women still account for only 28 per cent of engineering graduates and 40 per cent of graduates in computer science and informatics, said a forthcoming UNESCO Science Report,
China's space probe Tianwen-1 enters orbit around Mars
After entering the Mars orbit, payloads aboard the orbiter, including cameras and various particle analysers, will next start working and carry out surveys of the planet, Xinhua reported.
Arab League calls UAE Mars probe 'educational renaissance'
On Tuesday, the UAE's Hope Probe successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit, making the country's space agency the fifth in the world to achieve the feat. Hope was the first of three space missions sent toward the Red Planet during the July 2020 Mars launch window.The other two missions were launched by the national space agencies of China Tianwen1 and the US Mars 2020 and its Perseverance rover.
Eating grapes may protect against sunburn, UV damage to skin
Eating grapes can help protect against sunburn and ultraviolet (UV) skin damage and natural components found in the fruits known as polyphenols are thought to be responsible for these beneficial effects, according to a new study.
NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $93.3M to deliver payloads to Moon
The payloads, collectively expected to total 94 kg in mass, include the Regolith Adherence Characterisation (RAC), which will determine how lunar regolith sticks to a range of materials exposed to the Moon's environment during landing and lander operations.
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