NASA to launch sounding rocket to study sun’s chromosphere

[ad_1] Solar physicists will make a new attempt to observe the chromosphere of the sun, which is the most dynamic region. NASA, along with a team of international solar physicists, will launch a sounding rocket experiment on July 18 from New Mexico.  Reddish in colour, the chromosphere is a region sandwiched between the sun’s atmosphere […]

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‘Will move to Mars if there’s Netflix’

[ad_1] There are three movies from my youth that shaped how I felt about space: E.T., Cocoon and Independence Day. While the first two presented extraterrestrial life as wrinkly, cute and more or less benign, watching spaceships obliterate the White House didn’t give me the best feeling about what was out there in the universe. […]

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ISRO plans to return to Mars, explore dark side of moon with Japan

[ad_1] After missions to the moon and Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now set its eyes on Venus and also plans to explore the dark side of the moon in collaboration with Japan. Making a presentation on ISRO’s future missions at the Akash Tattva conference here, Anil Bhardwaj, Director of the Ahmedabad-based […]

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