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Entry, Descent, and Landing Technologies for Mars Exploration

Entry, Descent, and Landing Technologies for Mars Exploration

Range Trigger: It's hard to land on Mars, and even harder to land a rover precisely on scientifically rich locations the science team wants to study, and …

MOXIE and Ingenuity Helicopter for Mars Exploration

MOXIE and Ingenuity Helicopter for Mars Exploration

The helicopter is designed to provide overhead images with approximately ten times the resolution of orbital images and would.....

What is Causing Martian Landslide?

What is Causing Martian Landslide?

The results demonstrate that interactions of sulfates and chlorine salts in fine-grained soils on Mars could absorb water....

Challenges on Life on Venus

Challenges on Life on Venus

On 14 September 2020, a paper published in the journal nature astronomy reporting the apparent presence of phosphine (PH3) gas in Venus’s atmosphere. If …

We’re Finally Going to Hear What Mars Sounds Like

We’re Finally Going to Hear What Mars Sounds Like

Technological revolution replicated much of the human sensory experience and so the Mars exploration can not remain untouched. Many consider that the various …

CNO Cycle

CNO Cycle

Almost all star radiates energy by the process of fusion reaction and there are two fusion reaction types known till; CNO ( carbon-nitrogen–oxygen) and p-p …

Solid Phosphorus Found in Comets Signifying they Contain All the Raw Elements for Life

Solid Phosphorus Found in Comets Signifying they Contain All the Raw Elements for Life

But how is phosphorus important for biological life? and here lies the answer; in the process of forming life, water-soluble reactive......

Recent Neutrino Detection Proves the Sun is Undergoing a Second Kind of Fusion in its Core

Recent Neutrino Detection Proves the Sun is Undergoing a Second Kind of Fusion in its Core

Energy at the core our sun is not only produced by pp chain but also by CNO cycle, indicating a second type of fusion in its core. Stars are …

Astronomer Witnessed a Planet System Being Born by an Unprecendent Way

Astronomer Witnessed a Planet System Being Born by an Unprecendent Way

This false-colour image shows the filaments of accretion around the protostar [BHB2007] 1. The large structures are inflows of molecular gas (CO) nurturing …

The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) Converts Carbon dioxide Into Usable Oxygen

The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) Converts Carbon dioxide Into Usable Oxygen

Technicians in the cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California carefully lowering the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization …

Yes! The Spaghettification is Real

Yes! The Spaghettification is Real

Under a very powerful non-homogeneous gravitational field any object will stretch vertically and compress horizontally into a long thin shape like spaghetti, …

Finally, Blue Ring Nebula Mystery have been Solved

Finally, Blue Ring Nebula Mystery have been Solved

The discovery of an ultraviolet nebula introduces a new way of identifying otherwise-hidden late-stage stellar mergers and also provides a unique opportunity to study post-merger morphology.

Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

Johannes Kepler in between 1609 and 1619 (first two laws in the year 1609 and a third law in 1619) modified the earlier concept of the heliocentric theory of …

'Gravitational Molecules' Detected Around Black Holes Like Electrons Swirling Around Atoms

'Gravitational Molecules' Detected Around Black Holes Like Electrons Swirling Around Atoms

Black holes are notable for many things, especially their simplicity. They're just … holes. That are "black." This simplicity allows us to draw surprising …

Protostar and It's Evolution

Protostar and It's Evolution

New stars are forming in the molecular cloud of the Milky Way at a rate of about three M⊙ per year.

Harvard Spectral Classification

Harvard Spectral Classification

Each spectral line of stars indicates a particular chemical element or molecule, with the line strength indicating the abundance of that element.....

Yes, Magnetar Produces Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) But No One Knows Exactly How?

Yes, Magnetar Produces Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) But No One Knows Exactly How?

It was in 2007 when astronomers confirmed the first detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) where they also observed its traces, scattered across the …

Photon from the Sun that Just Touched You Was Formed Some 10 Million Years Ago

Photon from the Sun that Just Touched You Was Formed Some 10 Million Years Ago

Stars like Sun generates energy (light, heat) by a process called nuclear fusion where two or more atomic nuclei are combined to form one or more different …

How are Stellar Spectra Produced and Measured and it’s General Characteristics

How are Stellar Spectra Produced and Measured and it’s General Characteristics

The most important methods of forming a spectrum are by means of an objective prism or a slit spectrograph.

Recent Study Shows About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets

Recent Study Shows About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets

About half of the Sun-like stars could host rocky, potentially habitable planets and Milky Way alone could hold about 300 million of them.

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