NASA says parker solar probe breaks record for closest approach to Sun
October 30, 2018 15:36 ISTParker Solar Probe is also expected to break the record for fastest spacecraft travelling relative to the Sun.
Parker Solar Probe is also expected to break the record for fastest spacecraft travelling relative to the Sun.
The WWF's biennial report, which tracks trends in global wildlife abundance, indicates that the global populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles declined, on average, by 60 per cent between 1970 and 2014.
One of Hubble’s gyros failed on October 5, and the spacecraft's operations team activated a backup gyro the next day.
Video posted by a Chinese news site showed Landspace's 19-meter- (62-foot-) tall red-and-white rocket lifting off against clear blue skies.
ISRO intends to launch Chandrayaan-2 sometime in January next year. The Mission will have an orbiter, lander and a rover.
The fact that the most powerful jets are associated with binary black holes could have important consequences for the formation of stars in galaxies.
The image was captured by the WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument, the only imaging instrument on board the Parker Solar Probe.
Lauding Indian and Chinese space programmes for "making great progress", Kornienko urged the need for similar joint efforts by countries like Russia, India and China for the success of space exploration.
Sivan, who is here to attend the convocation ceremony of DDU Gorakhpur University Friday, told reporters, "We have set a deadline of sending human to space by the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022".
The Russian military said a Soyuz-2 booster rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia.
The stripes are parallel, appear to overlie other features and are unaffected by topography, suggesting they are among the youngest surfaces on Dione.
The twin, low-cost MarCO CubeSats, which are sharing a ride with InSight Mars lander, were designed to find out if they could survive the journey to deep space.
Fermi has mapped about 3,000 gamma-ray sources -- 10 times the number known before its launch and comparable to the number of bright stars in the traditional constellations.
Young low-mass stars flare much more frequently and more energetically than old stars and middle-age stars like our Sun, the findings of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal showed.
The meteorite is classified as NWA 11789, lunar feldspathic breccia, unofficially known as 'Buagaba' or 'The Moon Puzzle.'
The joint endeavour BepiColombo left Earth on an Ariane rocket that launched out of South America on Friday, the BBC said.
It's the first time the European and Japanese space agencies (Esa and Jaxa) have set out for Mercury. The Americans have already been there.
The initial proposal deadline is November 19, 2018, the US space agency said.
The artificial or man-made moon is a satellite carrying a huge space mirror, which can reflect the sun light to the Earth.
Hyperion's unimaginably enormous mass is estimated to be a million billion times that of our own Sun (which is approximately 1,048 Jupiters, or 333,000 Earths).
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