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Topic: Mars

Earthworms: A fresh challenge in the fight against global warming

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them. It's your fix to stay on top of the latest in science.

First ever quake detected on Mars by NASA’s InSight lander

The detection of the quake has come in the form of a rumbling from inside the silent planet.

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity finally falls silent

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to the best sources to read them. It’s your fix to stay on top of the latest in science.

China’s Chang’e-4 first spacecraft to land on dark side of the moon

The feat caps a series of lunar missions China has launched over the past few years as part of its plan to become one of the world’s top three aerospace powers by 2030.

Desi team wins NASA-backed film competition about humans reaching Mars

Five-minute film on young girl’s journey from Mumbai to being part of team on its way to Mars set to be screened worldwide for a year. 

Here’s what NASA’s new mission InSight will do on Mars

NASA’s InSight is landing on Mars early Tuesday. Its mission is a seismic study of the red planet and assessment of its interior.

World’s first gene-edited babies claimed in China and NASA’s Mars mission to land today

China holds two American Children to catch a fugitive official under exit ban and yellow vest protesters clash with police in Paris.

Move over Titanic, 2,400-year-old well-preserved shipwreck found at bottom of Black Sea

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, will offer you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

France steps in to help India on ISRO human spaceflight mission

The two nations also plan to collaborate on missions aimed at Mars, Venus and asteroids.

As spacecraft finds lake on Mars, Earthlings may discover alien cousins

Enough meteorites have flown between here and Mars to open the possibility that we’ll find our own relatives up there.

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.

All bets off as online gaming bill shakes industry & key players suspend ‘gambling’ on their platforms

The new law, which the government has framed as a moral duty, forced major platforms like Dream11 & Zupee to shut operations, wiping out hundreds of crores in market capitalisation. 

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.