A team of six 'astronauts' has launched a Mars analogue mission in Israel's Negev Desert, hoping to bring new insights for the possible future explorations of the Red Planet.
A new study on Thursday revealed that photos snapped by Perseverance early in its mission, shows how water helped shape the Red Planet's landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life.
The study, which was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, drew on decades of earthshine measurements to illuminate the Moon's surface.
“Indeed, a satisfying feeling," K Radhakrishnan who as the then Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) led the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) team told PTI on the milestone.
The NASA probe has recorded the most significant and longest-lasting quake on Mars, reaching magnitude 4.2 and causing to shake for over an hour and a half.
The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission's four newly minted citizen astronauts successfully splashed down in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Saturday, after a three-day trip by the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit.
The tourists were shown watching movies and occasionally heard responding to SpaceX's mission control inside their fully autonomous spacecraft before it began the nail-biting process of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, ANI report stated.
The first conjunction will occur when the Moon and the ringed planet Saturn align in the night sky on September 17. The Moon-Saturn junction will begin today at 02.33 GMT, when the natural satellite crosses three degrees 45 inches south of Saturn, putting both celestial objects in the constellation Capricornus.
The goal of the mission is to raise $200 million for St Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, which is a prominent hospital in the state.
The mission was part of China's well-publicized space programme, which has previously resulted in the country landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the moon.
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