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India’s Shukrayaan orbiter to study Venus for over four years, launches in 2024
Shukrayaan will be the first mission to map Venus’ subsurface.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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Why explore Neptune
This azure ice giant challenges our understanding of how planets form and offers a potentially habitable moon.
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What SOFIA’s discovery of water on the Moon is, and isn’t
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
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Japan wants to sample Mars’ moon Phobos with its MMX mission
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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Debate: Mangalyaan’s low science output still reflects on ISRO
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 giant leap for humanity was not stepping on the Moon but getting to Earth orbit first
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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India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?
Hailed as India’s most successful space mission, Mangalyaan has an ugly vacuum of science results.
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Why explore asteroids, comets, and other small worlds
They're cosmic time capsules that provide a peek at our origin story.
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The Moon’s potential for radio astronomy and Chang’e 4
The lunar farside is uniquely placed for better observing the radio Universe.
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NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft revealed how Mars lost its atmosphere and water
What is the achilles’ heel of Mars? MAVEN found out.
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Interviewing Tory Bruno, leading the company that has launched every NASA mission to Mars
“Atlas V is the most accurate rocket in the world.”
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The landing site of NASA Apollo 11
NASA chose the Apollo 11 landing site for engineering simplicity, but it had scientific benefits nevertheless.