Severe Coldwave grips Kashmir, mercury touches 10-yr low
India | December 17, 2020 13:20 ISTWith minus 6.4°C, Srinagar recorded the season's lowest temperature this year on Thursday.
With minus 6.4°C, Srinagar recorded the season's lowest temperature this year on Thursday.
In the last few days the earth has witnessed 2 lunar eclipses (June 5 and July 5) and 1 historic solar eclipse on June 21. But there is more to look forward to if you are one of those people who loves gazing at the sky. In the next few days, out felow planets Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and later even Mars will be visible in the Sky.
Country witnessing a rise in mercury across the state, the people of Odisha's Bhubaneswar is having a tough time in beating the heat.
A transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly (transits) between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. Transits of Mercury occur in May or November.
Planet Mercury will pass directly between Earth and the Sun on November 11, staging a rare celestial show. During the transit, Mercury will look like a tiny black dot gliding across the Sun's face, NASA said in a blog this week, adding that the event will be widely visible from most of Earth, including the Americas, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
The poles of Mercury and the Moon are among the coldest places in our solar system. Unlike Earth, the spin axes of Mercury and the Moon are oriented such that, in their polar regions, the Sun never rises high above the horizon.
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.
Earlier on Saturday, Delhi residents braved a warm and humid weather, though rains lashed parts of the city.
Mercury star Prabhudheva said that he loves to do experiment in his films and it is like a passion for him.
Prabhudheva's film Mercury will be screened on April 12.
Prabhudheva announced the release date of his forthcoming film Mercury through a tweet.
Scientists in their study claim to have found evidence of frozen water hidden away on crater floors that are permanently shadowed from the Sun’s blistering rays
In a rare celestial show that came as treat for sky-watchers, the Moon aligned itself with three planets and of the biggest stars visible from Earth
Planetary scientists have discovered a new large valley in the southern hemisphere of Mercury which provides more evidence that the small planet closest to the Sun is shrinking. Scientists used stereo images from NASA's MESSENGER
Researchers have discovered that major volcanic activity on the planet Mercury most likely stopped about 3.5 billion years ago. According to researchers from North Carolina State, this new study shed light into the geological evolution
Australian scientists have found a toxic form of mercury in Antarctic's atmosphere and sea ice. According to a research, led by the University of Melbourne, the significant amounts of methylmercury, an especially dangerous strain of
Jaipur: Severe heat wave conditions continued to affect normal life in Rajasthan with mercury crossing 50 degrees Celsius in at least two of places in the state. Phalodi in Jodhpur district was hottest at 51
New Delhi: A transit of Mercury over the disc of the Sun will take place in the afternoon of May 9 and will be visible from India after a gap of about ten years. The
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