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Topic: Mars

NASA rover confirms existence of lake sediments on Mars

According to research published in Science Advances, radar observations from the robotic rover indicate presence of ancient lake sediments on the 'red planet'.

2022 ‘Marsquake’ mystery solved — here’s why planet shook for 6 hours, and it wasn’t a meteorite

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

Mars could have been watery world 400,000 yrs ago — Chinese rover finds signs of water activity

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

NASA’s Curiosity sends ‘clearest ever’ images of sun rays shining through Martian clouds

The sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for 'twilight', were captured by Curiosity on 2 February, as the rays of the setting Sun lit up a bank of clouds.

Unusual circular sand dunes spotted on Mars & how a Jurassic-era insect made its way to Walmart

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

2022’s biggest space stories: One giant leap for tourists & universe as you’ve never seen it

Indian private space sector saw series of missions & launches. Meanwhile, NASA carried out a successful planetary defence experiment by knocking an asteroid's moon off course.

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.

New Jezero Crater finds bear evidence of organic compounds, interaction of rocks & water on Mars

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

Scientists find fish that stress eat their own babies & spot a black hole gobbling up a star

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

On Camera

Severe Hyderabad internet outages make it an IT hub without the IT part

Many offices in Telangana have asked their employees to work from home because of heavy rainfall, but it has become impossible due to the internet outages.

‘Not just Russian oil, India tapped us along on trade deal,’ says US treasury secy Scott Bessent

New Delhi: The US is not worried about the rupee “becoming a reserve currency” given that it is at an all-time low versus the...

CDS on differences on theaterisation—views welcome, final call to be in nation’s best interests

The Navy has always been on board with the theaterisation plan, but the Air Force feels splitting up air assets into several theatre commands is futile & will tie up critical systems.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.