Sunday, August 28, 2022

NASA shoots for the Moon, on its way to Mars

NASA's most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the space program called Artemis is to get under way with the blast off of the uncrewed 322-foot Space Launch System rocket.

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Back to Moon: Nasa set to launch Artemis-1 lunar mission on Monday

The new Space Launch System (SLS) will be the most powerful rocket engine ever flown to space, even more powerful than Apollo's Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s. The Orion spacecraft that will be launched by the rocket is scheduled to travel to the Moon, deploy some small satellites and then settle into orbit.

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Monday, August 22, 2022

New space telescope shows Jupiter's auroras, tiny moons

The James Webb Space Telescope took the photos in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and swirling polar haze. Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.

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Friday, August 19, 2022

Known risk factors behind 37% of India cancer deaths

Globally 44.4% (4.5 million) of all cancer deaths were attributable to risk factors, says the study. The estimates are based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk factors Report, 2019. According to the study, nearly half (50.6%) of all cancer deaths in men globally in 2019 (2.8 million) were due to known risk factors, compared with 36.3% all female cancer deaths (1.5 million) attributable to these factors.

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Monday, August 15, 2022

'Extreme heat belt' to cover middle of US by 2053: Report



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Space mission shows Earth's water may be from asteroids: Study



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Isro's aim: 10% share in global space economy

Isro chairman S Somanath said in Bengaluru on Monday that the agency has its eyes set on increasing India's share in the global space economy from about 2% to a two-digit number.

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