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First liftoff: Ingenuity copter to add aerial dimension to Mars exploration

The helicopter onboard the Perseverance rover aims to add the aerial dimension to Mars exploration, which remains unavailable to date

Perseverance rover doing great on Mars surface after landing: NASA engineer

The Perseverance Rover is doing great and successfully transmitting data back to Earth after a soft landing on the surface of Mars, NASA engineers told a press conference

Mangalyaan-2 will be an orbiter mission: ISRO chief K Sivan

ISRO chief K Sivan said India's next mission to the Red Planet is likely to be an orbiter.

Top headlines: Rich PF investors may opt for debt funds, GST slab merger

Following the backlash it received for the update to its privacy policy in early January, WhatsApp will now let users take a better look at the changes that have been proposed. Read top news here

Meet Indian American who led NASA's Perseverance Rover landing on Mars

Washington [US], February 19 (ANI): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Perseverance rover on Thursday (local time) successfully touched down on the surface of Mars after surviving a blazing seven-minute plunge through the Martian atmosphere. Among the scientists who are part of this historic mission, Indian-American Dr Swati Mohan spearheaded the development of attitude control and the landing system for the rover."Touchdown confirmed! Perseverance is safely on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking the signs of past life," exclaimed NASA engineer Dr Swati Mohan.When the world watched the dramatic landing, in the control room, calm and composed bindi-clad Dr Mohan was communicating and coordinating between the GN & C subsystem and the rest of the project's team.Apart from being the lead systems engineer during the development process, she also looks after the team and schedules the mission control staffing for GN & C.NASA scientist Dr Mohan ...

NASA Mars mission: Perseverance rover successfully lands on red planet

Perseverance, the biggest, most advanced rover ever sent by NASA, stood to become the ninth spacecraft to successfully land on Mars

Nasa's Mars mission 2021: Watch Perseverance land on Mars tonight online

Nasa's Mars mission 2021: Here's all you need to know about Nasa Perseverance landing date and time in India and across the world, online live stream, and other details

Once a two-country race, Mars missions now on radar of multiple nations

More than 40 missions have been launched to Mars to explore different aspects of the red planet

China's space dream scores big win with the first mission to Mars

Tianwen-1 reached Mars' orbit, Chinese state media reported at 8:57 pm. Beijing time on Wednesday

UAE makes history as Hope spacecraft successfully enters Mars orbit

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) made history as its first-ever interplanetary Hope Probe mission successfully entered orbit around Mars on Tuesday

United Arab Emirates spacecraft enters orbit around Mars in historic flight

Two more unmanned spacecraft from the U.S. and China are following close behind, set to arrive at Mars over the next several days

Food for space: Radish adds to hope of human colonies on Mars, Moon

The radish is the latest addition to several plant species grown at the ISS's veggie chamber, a carefully constructed "greenhouse"

A hard landing: Musk's Starship fails to slow down, explodes on way back

The prototype experienced a "hard landing" after its successful ascent, a perfect flip maneuver to position itself for a landing before it exploded seconds after touching the ground

Potential life on Mars likely lived miles below the planet's surface: Study

They showed that the conditions needed for subsurface melting would have been ubiquitous on ancient Mars

Botany, cancer research to widen in space as Resilience lifts off on Sunday

Nasa, SpaceX will begin the commercial crew rotation missions to low Earth orbit as Crew-1 with four astronauts lift off later this month

China's reusable spacecraft successfully returns to landing site: Report

The spacecraft was launched on board a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Friday

SpaceX's Mars Starship spacecraft prototype soars on test flight

A prototype of SpaceX's Mars Starship spacecraft got off the ground in a test flight, marking a small step that could one day prove to be a giant leap towards the human exploration of the Red Planet.

Mars 2020: The hunt for life on the red planet is about to get serious

The sudden flurry of activity is a result of planetary dynamics: every two or so years, the orbits of Earth and Mars align so that the two bodies are at their closest to each other

NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to liftoff today: Everything you need to know

Tune into the podcast to know more interesting and exciting details about the ongoing explorations in the outer space

Bringing Mars rocks to Earth: Our greatest interplanetary circus act

With fresh Mars rocks on Earth, more scientists will be able to examine them, employing a wide array of the most sophisticated equipment in laboratories around the world