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NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover finds evidence of Ancient Lake

June 26, 2017

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has found rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater that might have been a lake of liquid water. The scientists believe that the rocks were either transported by a flood or eroded in place by the wind. Salient Facts NASA’s Opportunity rover ..

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NASA launches World's Lightest Satellite designed by Indian Student

June 23, 2017

NASA has launched world’s lightest satellite weighing only 64 grams designed by 18-year-old boy Rifath Sharook from Tamil Nadu. The tiny satellite has been named as KalamSat after the former President APJ Abdul Kalam. The tiny satellite was launched into space on a sounding rocket from NASA’s ..

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NASA tests ROSA on Space Station for First Time

June 21, 2017

NASA is testing the effectiveness of a flexible solar array, the Roll-Out Solar Array, or ROSA, on space station for the very first time. ROSA is expected to one day power satellites and spacecraft. NASA had earlier tested the ROSA technology in vacuum chambers ..

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NASA's Kepler Telescope finds 10 Earth-Like Planets

June 20, 2017

NASA’s Kepler Telescope has identified 10 Earth-like planets outside the solar system that are expected to host life due to their right size and temperature. This finding is a boost  in the hope for life elsewhere. Exoplanet: It is a ..

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NASA's Orion Spacecraft Clears Safety Tests

June 19, 2017

NASA’s Orion Spacecraft which has been designed to carry astronauts to deep space destinations like Moon and Mars has successfully carried out a series of tests to test its critical safety systems. Salient Highlights NASA test fired Orion’s launch abort system ..

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Fact Box: James Webb Space Telescope & its First Targets

June 17, 2017

Mission officials for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have announced the initial science targets for the James Webb Space Telescope. The JWST has been scheduled to look at a large number of things in the universe including icy moons, distant exoplanets ..

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NASA: May 2017 is the second hottest month in 137 years 

June 16, 2017

According to NASA, May 2017 was the second hottest month in a span of 137 years when modern record-keeping of average global temperatures had commenced. The temperature of May 2017 was 0.88 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean May temperature from 1951-1980. May ..

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Fact Box: Hottest Known Planet in Universe

June 8, 2017

Scientists have discovered the hottest known exoplanet, designated KELT-9b which is warmer than most stars in the universe. The study has been published in the journal Nature. Exoplanet is a planet that does not orbit the Sun and instead orbits a different star, ..

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