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Topic: Mars

‘It’s like science fiction come to life’: NASA engineers tell how Mars missions are pulled off

NASA, the US space agency, is a veteran at landing spacecraft on Mars. It has sent 19 missions to the planet so far, including 10 landers and rovers.

NASA’s Perseverance rover sends back laser sounds from Mars

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

7 months, 7 minutes of terror and -60°C — what countries are willing to face to access Mars

The history of Mars exploration is riddled with failure. In the 1990s four out of NASA’s six Mars missions were lost, including a $125 million orbiter.

NASA gives ‘front-row view’ of Perseverance dangling, then landing & audio from Mars

NASA has released the video of the Perseverance rover landing with the help of a sky crane, as well as audio sounds from the surface of the planet Mars.

India’s next Mars mission likely to be an orbiter, ISRO to also explore Venus

Following the successful Mars landing by NASA's Perseverance, ISRO said it was working on Mars Orbiter Mission 2. Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan remain immediate priorities.

NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars in search of ancient life, sends home 1st pictures

Perseverance joins two other NASA missions exploring Mars — Curiosity rover which arrived in mid-2012, and the stationary InSight lander that began exploration in November 2018.

Tonight, NASA Perseverance attempts Mars landing, will help us hear Red Planet, search for life

Mission of Perseverance includes assessing habitability of Mars and looking for evidence of past or present life. Spacecraft includes Ingenuity, the first chopper to fly on another planet.

1,000 yrs for a trip around Sun — scientists map orbit of most distant object in solar system

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

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft enters orbit around Mars, second in two days after UAE

Next week, the US will attempt to land its Perseverance rover on the Martian surface.

Who is Sarah Al Amiri? The 33-year-old scientist who led UAE’s Hope orbiter mission

Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri is UAE's first Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and also the chairperson of the country's space agency.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.