We all have an answer to the question of who was the first woman in space. Valentina Tereshkova. On June 16, 1963, the Vostok 6 spacecraft made that trip. But it took 20 years for a second woman to reach space. The second trip was in 1982, and that too was by Soviet Union cosmonaut…
Hyperion is the eighth largest moon of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft took a closer look at its many strange craters. A spongy surface due to the presence of odd craters At the bottom of most craters is some unknown dark red material. It is the same type of material found on the surface of Saturn’s…
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will make its closest approach to the Sun on January 12, 2023. Perihelion (closest point to the Sun during rotation) of this comet is 1.11 AU (Astronomical Unit) from the Sun. The comet will pass closest to Earth on February 1st. It will pass at a distance of only 4.2 crore…
Winter brings big changes to Mars. Snow on Mars is not like snow on Earth. There are two forms of snow on Mars. Dry ice is a combination of water ice and carbon dioxide. The former will disperse before reaching the Martian surface. But dry ice can also reach the Martian surface. NASA has released…
Can anyone believe this is Niagara Falls? This is the sight of the world’s largest waterfall frozen in extreme cold. It is a wonderful sight to see the water falling into the waterfall as it turns into icicles. Pictures showing the severity of the extreme cold in Niagara have come out from here. Niagara Falls…
Published by Lockheed Martin, maker of the Orion Capsule. Orion spacecraft captures live view of Earth and moon (video)
The type of map shown below, or the method of showing the earth as a whole, is called Cylindrical projection. This is the map we usually see. Here, the surface of the earth is wrapped around an imaginary cylinder and then spread out to make it look like a flat earth. At that time, the…
The European Space Agency’s spacecraft that carried Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet. On March 2, 2004, Rosetta was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, on a 10-year mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta’s 654-million-km journey entered orbit around the comet on August 6, 2014, and then landed the…
Percy returned to Mars in July 2020. After nearly a year of exploration, yesterday (21 Dec 2022) Percy began one of his main missions, sample deposition. Many holes were dug on the surface of Mars and soil, rock dust, etc. were collected from them in small titanium tubes, sealed and deposited in various places on…
