Find our entire collection of stories, in-depth analysis, live updates, videos & more on Chandrayaan 2 Moon Mission on our dedicated #Chandrayaan2TheMoon domain. On 7 September 2019, the day Vikram Lander was scheduled to soft-land on the lunar surface, ISRO lost contact with the lander module comprising the Lander Vikram and Rover Pragyan, which came […]
The 2019 Fall Foliage Prediction Map is a feature of the SmokyMountains.com website. The map displays a week-by-week prediction of when leaves in the continental United States will be changing colors from now through the end of November. You can see the predictions change by moving the timeline at the bottom of the map. On
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Rachana ReddySep 07, 2019 21:40:57 IST The six-week journey of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 through the ever unforgiving emptiness of space has finally ended today. From the first hiccup where the launch was delayed due to a leak in the rocket’s cryo engine to the many orbit-raising manoeuvres around Earth, the complex insertion into the moon’s
tech2 News StaffSep 07, 2019 03:46:58 IST After a nail-biting descent, the Chandrayaan 2 mission has stalled at a cliffhanger. ISRO appears to have lost contact with the Vikram lander, and is waiting to hear an analysis of data from the lander’s final moments from Chandrayaan 2 mission control. The descent of the spacecraft began normally at 1.38 am. Carried
Mackmyra’s Intelligens is billed as the first whisky created using AI. (Microsoft / Mackmyra Photo) Computer scientists have tried using artificial intelligence to write poetry and compose music, with mixed results. But have they tried using it to make whisky? We now know that they have, although drinkers in the U.S. will have to wait
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For the last two weeks, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has been lowering its orbit around the moon as it prepares for India’s first attempt at a lunar landing. On Monday, the Vikram lunar lander separated from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, in the last major maneuver before the scheduled landing on Friday. If everything goes as planned, India
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Wednesday evening during CNN’s climate change town hall, the gods of politicking looked down on Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and they smiled. In the audience, a man named David with small glasses and pony-tailed gray hair stood up and said he’d lost his home in Paradise, California to last year’s Camp Fire, which was supercharged
Agence France-PresseSep 04, 2019 09:25:58 IST On 3 September, the European Space Agency announced that it had altered the trajectory of one of its active, orbiting Earth-observation satellites to prevent what could have been a collision with a satellite operated by SpaceX. The satellite was part of SpaceX’s newly-launched Starlink constellation, a 12,000-strong planned constellation of internet broadband satellites offering hi-speed internet
Radiocarbon dating on a 17000-year-old coprolite reveals parasitic roundworm eggs preserved inside. Scientists have found the oldest parasite DNA yet recorded, dating back 16,570 to 17,000 years ago, in the faeces of a pre-historic puma that roamed Argentina’s mountains as the last ice age was drawing to an end. It is the DNA of the
tech2 News StaffSep 02, 2019 19:31:46 IST Launched as a part of the Chang’e 4 mission, China’s lunar rover Yutu has recently discovered a “gel-like” substance on the surface of the moon. As per a report by People’s Daily, this substance is described as “unusually coloured”. This discovery was made during lunar day 8 which
