This is a tightened version of the talk I gave for Chai and Why, a series of popular science talks organized by Arnab Bhattacharya, a scientist and a science communicator based out of India. Talk Description: It’s been 50 years since humans landed on the Moon, so why haven’
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This azure ice giant challenges our understanding of how planets form and offers a potentially habitable moon.
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NASA and the Germany space agency’s airborne SOFIA telescope has detected water on the Moon’s surface. There are many misconceptions floating around this discovery so I’d like to clarify the nature of the findings and what it means for lunar science and exploration. Different from Chandrayaan 1
Here are some more interesting bits I didn’t get to cover in my article on Japan's MMX mission, which will collect samples from Mars’ moon Phobos. * Slowing down from orbital speeds to a touch down under Phobos’ weak gravity is going to be incredibly challenging. Among other
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This is the first time the martian moons will be fully mapped, and samples brought to Earth from the martian system.
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Only part of the missing science from ISRO’s highly held Mars mission may be due to inadequacy of academic institutions in India.
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The launch of Sputnik in 1957 marked not just the advent of the Space Age but had an even deeper significance.
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Hailed as India’s most successful space mission, Mangalyaan has an ugly vacuum of science results.
In this podcast episode for NewSpace India, I talk about the scope of space science missions in India and how they can be broadened in the future. We deeply discuss India’s first Mars mission Mangalyaan, missing science from it, and potential lessons for the future.
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They're cosmic time capsules that provide a peek at our origin story.
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The Indian Department of Space (DOS), that overlooks ISRO, organized their long due seminar last month on its plans to boost involvement of India’s private space sector and academia in space activities. Here are its videos: 1. Opening session: “Unlocking India’s Potential in Space Sector” 2. Session-1 -
I was invited by Tech2/Firstpost on their science podcast alongside Narayan Prasad to talk about India's space exploration roadmap, or the lack thereof. Topics discussed: * 02:58 - Interesting destinations to explore in the inner Solar System * 07:10 - What makes the Moon so significant for
