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TopicMars Rover

Topic: Mars Rover

How new DNA software — used to create smallest pottery — will help create solar cell molds

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

NASA’s InSight rover prepares to join Mars’s robot graveyard — ‘may be last image I send’

Since it landed on Mars in 2018, InSight has detected over a thousand seismic events, with at least 50 of them providing signs clear enough to derive new information about the red planet.

Now we know what dust devils, mini-tornadoes on Mars, sound like. All thanks to Perseverance

Sound of surface storm, a frequent weather phenomenon on Mars, was recorded as it passed over NASA's Perseverance rover last year. Findings published in Nature Communications.

Scientists decode why mice go bananas when they’re around the fruit

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Made from human cardiac cells, biohybrid fish swims by recreating pumping heart’s contractions

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Found in Australia — a ‘true’ millipede with more than 1,000 legs

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

China’s first rover on Mars sends back dramatic images, including a selfie

Four images were released by China, including its national flag on Mars, a panorama of the landing site, the planet's dusty landscape and a selfie of the rover with the landing platform.

China lands rover on Mars, third country to perform successful soft landing on the planet

The Zhurong rover, a part of China's Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, will, among other things, hunt for biosignatures for any past life or habitability on the planet.

NASA’s Perseverance rover creates oxygen on Mars, for the first time ever

MOXIE, a toaster-sized instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, produced 5.4 g oxygen in an hour — enough for an astronaut to breathe for 10 minutes.

NASA’s helicopter completes first successful flight on Mars in major milestone

The flight of the tiny Ingenuity helicopter is the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It is a part of the Mars 2020 mission which landed the Perseverance rover in February.

On Camera

The Beckhams’ PR game is on track. Victoria’s 50th birthday was a pop culture moment

The Beckhams have had the sleekest, unassailable PR game in celebrity town. And much of it rests on their carefully curated social media image, especially on Instagram.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India, Oman hold 5th annual high-level meeting to boost maritime security

Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.