'ISRO provides a very positive atmosphere. What matters here is your talent, not your gender,' says Ritu Karidhal, Deputy Operations Director, India's Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan. A fascinating excerpt from Minnie Vaid's Those Magnificent Women And Their Flying Machines, Isro's Mission To Mars.
Researchers at the University of Arizona in US imaged the picture of the planet residing in a gap in LkCa1's disk, despite the disk's considerable distance from Earth and its gaseous, dusty atmosphere.
This demonstration of technology is exciting, as is the fact that it has been done with so little expense, says M N Vahia
The researchers, led by Matias Jones of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, used the 1.5 m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and the 2.2 m telescope at La Silla observatory in Chile, and the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian telescope in Australia.
The Rs 978 crore mission, which has been rescheduled for Monday after scientists corrected the glitch in the rocket, will be launched at 2.43 p.m from the second launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, over 100 km from Chennai.
John Nelson, a GIS analyst with Michigan-based IDV Solutions, created this visualisation using cloudless images from NASA's Visible Earth team.
Thanks to the astronaut, every year two students from her alma mater, the Tagore Baal Niketan school, will visit the NASA headquarters.
Celebrating Independence Day the Bollywood way.
The Chang'e-4 spacecraft scripted history on Thursday when it made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon.
What goes up must come down. In the science of rocketry, it always comes down with a thud. But that equation may change somewhat on Tuesday when the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with goodies for the International Space Station.
Puri Jagannadh also gave his blood sample.
In a technology that can bring down costs significantly of launching satellites, India will test a reusable launch vehicle in September.
'The unique achievements have been made by engineers from small towns who have had a non elite upbringing and who have grown with the programme,' says R Aravamudan, one of the pioneers of the Indian space programme.
Scientists speculate that the transmission could be from a technically proficient society.
Here are some interesting facts about this newly discovered planet.
There were nervous moments...we knew we were taking a risk, but in the end we succeeded and I'm extremely happy, says S Arunan, project director, Mars Orbiter Mission in an interview with Rediff.com.
