SINGAPORE: A study released on Monday, using data from NASA’s Mars InSight lander, found evidence of for liquid water underground reservoir deep below Mars’ surface. This discovery advances the search for life on Mars and sheds light on what may have happened to its ancient oceans. The InSight lander, which has been on Mars since […]
RIYADH: The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) recently captured an amazing sky event: the waning crescent moon lined up with Mars, Jupiter, Aldebaran, and the Pleiades star cluster. This celestial alignment was visible to the naked eye and could be seen from 2:30 am in the Northern Border region until dawn. The alignment of the waning […]
This day in history we feature the Mariner 4. The first close-up images of another planet were captured by Mariner 4 during its flyby of Mars on this day in 1965. Trivia – Mariner 4 Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was […]
This day in history we feature the European Space Agency. An intergovernmental organization dedicated to space exploration and research was established on this day in 1975. Trivia – European Space Agency The European Space Agency is an organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, […]
This day in history we feature the Ingenuity. The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet on this day in 2021. Trivia – Ingenuity Ingenuity, also called Ginny, is a small robotic helicopter operating on Mars. It is part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, along with the Perseverance rover, which […]
Dubai: The year 2022 ends on a positive note with regard to India-UAE relations, with business and political ties between the two countries scaling new heights. The UAE is India’s third largest trading partner and the bilateral trade between them surpasses $88 billion. Indians, moreover, constitute 39.9 per cent of the UAE population and their […]
Washington: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first images and spectra of Mars that show a region of the planet’s eastern hemisphere at two different wavelengths or colours of infrared light. Whereas the images show differences in brightness integrated over a large number of wavelengths from place to place across the planet at […]
Dubai: The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, has made the first observations of a new type of proton aurora around Mars. The spatially variable ‘patchy’ proton aurora potentially triggers new insights into unexpected behaviours in the Martian atmosphere. The EMM team has worked together with NASA’s MAVEN […]
This day in history we feature NASA’s Phoenix. It was an uncrewed space probe launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on this day in 2007. Trivia – NASA’s Phoenix Phoenix was NASA’s sixth successful landing on Mars, from seven attempts, and the first in Mars’ polar region. The mission had two goals. […]
Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Mars Mission ‘Hope Probe’ has identified new observations, in addition to its nominal set of observations, about Mars’ atmosphere in its fourth batch of scientific data. Collected by the Hope Probe’s instruments during its mission in Mars’ orbit from December 2021 to February 2022, the latest data demonstrate the capabilities of […]
In a turn of events, a NASA rover spotted a piece of the rubbish while roaming on Mars. NASA recently took to Twitter to confirm that they had discovered something rather ‘unexpected.’ The statement said, “My team has spotted something unexpected: It’s a piece of a thermal blanket that they think may have come from […]
