Chandrayaan
Chandrayaan 2, India’s first mission to attempt a Moon landing
The complexity and cost of a robotic lunar landing mission is enormous; only three countries have been successful so far.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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Gravity assist: The simple physics trick that’s allowed humanity to explore deep space
How did the NASA Voyager spacecraft escape the Solar system?
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Is the solar system’s largest storm dying?
The Great Red Spot is 1.3-times as wide as Earth, and appears to be dwindling faster than expected.
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India’s Astrosat and NASA’s Chandra co-discover a rapidly spinning black hole
How to determine how fast a black hole is spinning? Its X-ray outbursts will tell you.
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Underground lava tubes on the Moon
A pit in Marius Hills.
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Can there be a galactic empire?
Are galactic empires akin to ones in Star Wars and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation possible?
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From Hipparchus to Gaia, the story of finding our place among billions of stars
Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't until 1807 when we truly realized just how far away stars really were.
China and Luna
Chang’e 4 landing site
The ancient Von Kármán crater on the Moon's farside.
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How Chandrayaan 1 viewed a solar eclipse from the Moon
Behind the scenes of India’s first lunar mission.
Visual Space
Mountain in a crater! – Tycho
The spectacular peak at the center of young crater on the Moon.
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Where does India’s first exoplanet discovery fit in?
K2–236b was discovered through a global, collaborative effort and can’t be celebrated as a completely indigenous one.
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A mission to touch the Sun, with the fastest spacecraft in history
New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, that’s how fast NASA’s Parker Solar Probe can go.