Chandrayaan-2 ends year around Moon, adequate fuel for 7 more years: ISRO

[ad_1] India’s second Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission ended a year in orbit around the moon on Thursday and all instruments are currently functioning well and there is enough fuel on board to keep it operational for about seven years, the space agency said. ISRO. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into lunar orbit … Read more

Hubble captures the host galaxy of the supernova

[ad_1] Credit: ESA / Hubble and NASA, S. Smartt et al. This image from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spectacular galaxy NGC 2442, nicknamed the Meathook Galaxy due to its extremely asymmetric and irregular shape. This galaxy was host to a spotted supernova explosion in March 2015, known as SN 2015F, … Read more

Student Rover explores the backyard in tribute

[ad_1] Three students were a little sad when NASA’s Opportunity rover went silent after 15 years on the Martian surface. So they decided to build their own Opportunity-inspired rover to roam their backyards using a ready-made robot chassis, a Raspberry Pi and the usual list of parts like motors, H-bridges and batteries. Like the real … Read more

Ozone in the northern hemisphere has increased over the past 20 years

[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a first-ever study using ozone data collected by commercial aircraft, researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado at Boulder found that pollutant levels in the lower end lower Earth’s atmosphere had risen across the Northern Hemisphere over the past 20 … Read more