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For launching its Aditya-L1 mission on September 2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be using a variant of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) which also launched India’s first missions to the moon and Mars. With the PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 mission, India’s first solar mission, the PSLV-XL variant will mark its 25th flight. Read more…
An Indian-American scientist, Swati Varshney, is one of the three skydivers who is set to prepare for the first-ever jump from the stratosphere by a woman hoping to break the world record. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: M.A.SRIRAM/ The Hindu An Indian-American scientist, Swati Varshney, is one of the three skydivers who is set…
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Archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Venture stock items of pottery of a three,000-year-old tomb which they consider may have honoured an elite spiritual chief within the Andean nation some 3 millennia in the past, in Pacopampa, Peru August 26, 2023. | Photograph Credit score: Reuters Archaeologists in northern Peru have unearthed a three,000-year-old tomb which…
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An illustrative photograph showing the new Twitter logo rebranded as X (L) and the previous bird logo reflected in smartphone screens, July 27, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP A survey conducted recently by the journal Nature found that researchers are leaving the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), a place they used frequently…
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The sun as seen by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft in extreme ultraviolet light in this mosaic of 25 individual images taken on March 7, 2023, by the high-resolution telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument. Taken at a wavelength of 17 nanometers, in the extreme ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum, this image reveals…
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