NASA rover Curioisty landed on the surface of Mars marking an significant achievement for NASA and space scientists. Curioisty was dropped hanging from a rocket backpack on the surface.
Curiosity will study the probabilities of existence of life forms in the past on the red planet. The fully equipped rover will also study the feasibility of human existence on the planet in future.
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11:13 18 Jun 2013 from
IANS
Half of NASA's new astronaut class are women
Washington, June 18 (IANS/EFE) NASA announced Monday that it has selected its first new contingent of potential astronauts in four years and half of them are women.The four men and four women who were chosen from among more than 6,100 applicants...
01:47 14 Jun 2013 from
Tech2
Microsoft teams up with NASA to show off Xbox One's capabilities
Microsoft has been pushing quite hard to show off the power of its next-gen console—the Xbox One. At the company's booth at E3, Microsoft was showing off a tech demo it had created for the Xbox One with the help of NASA. The...
08:42 07 Jun 2013 from
Tech2
NASA plans to launch satellite to explore Sun
Preparations are underway for the June 26 launch of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, to explore the sun's lower atmosphere, or interface region, NASA said. "The interface region, located between the...
