Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
When the International Space Station goes into orbit, it will have an atomic clock on board. However, it won't help the astronauts tell the time. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a laser-cooled, caesium atomic clock that will use microgravity conditions to achieve accuracy "at least …
for those who had been thirsting for news on the moon, this certainly is exciting. The cold, dark side of the moon has something that its bright side does not
researchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) say that water flowed on Mars for a million years. The present findings support the theory that life existed on Mars. According to Wesley Huntress, nasa 's associate administrator for space science, recent photographs from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiting Mars …
Sails of the Sun Solar sails are one of the promising ideas for propelling robotic probes to distant stars. These use the gentle pressure of light from the Sun to move themselves. Information on these solar sails can be accessed at http://weber.u.washington.edu/nebrich/solarsails/. Another candidate for propelling such long distance interstellar …
indonesia , after beginning negotiations with the Russian space agency rka to put a cosmonaut in space on board the space station Mir, has abandoned the project. The Indonesian government gave no apparent reason for this unexpected change of plans, the rka officials said, speculating that financial constraints might have …
after the successful launch of Earlybird 1, the first commercial spy satellite, anyone can now acquire high resolution images taken from space for as little as us $300. It's getting popular everyday and the maker of the satellite, Earthwatch Inc, even has its own website on the Internet (www.digitaglobe.com) where …
The problems with the Mir space station do not seem to get over. On January 2, its main computer broke down again taking the orientation system off-line in the process. Mir's main computer broke down seven times last year. Experts believe that the breakdown of the main computer will not …
a robotic camera was released on December 3 - 40 feet above space shuttle Columbia - by a spacewalking us astronaut, Winston Scott. The camera - about the size of a beach ball - is the first test of its kind. The us $3 million free-flying camera is padded for …
an italian microbiologist who has been monitoring hygiene on the Russian space station, Mir, says that filthy conditions have caused its occupants to suffer from food poisoning and other infections. Mario Pitzurra of Perugia University says that these infections have so far been controlled by using antibiotics. "Mir's basic hygiene …
the atmospheres of giant planets are mostly made-up of hydrogen, helium and methane. Now, studies at the Infrared Space Observatory ( iso ) Science Operation, Villafranca, Spain, show that the icy satellites and the rings which surround these planets, could be an important source of oxygen to the atmospheres of …
A vast halo of gamma rays surrounds the Milky Way galaxy, say scientists. Gamma rays are particles of light that contain highest levels of energy of all forms of radiation. Dave Dixon and his colleagues at the University of California-Riverside, USA, say that the presence of gamma rays indicates that …
brazil's floundering space programme suffered another blow when the ground control was forced to destroy the first space rocket launched in Brazil after one of its four engines failed to start. Colonel Thiago da Silva Ribiero, spokesperson of the Brazilian space agency, said controllers destroyed the 20-metre rocket by remote …
the beleaguered Russian space station Mir received a shot in the arm when two cosmonauts made a space walk of six hours and 17 minutes to install a new solar panel outside the station's scientific module Kvant on November 6. The new panel would double the power supply on the …
the countdown for Cassini's launch had more than its share of the drama. For the first time in the history of space exploration, people protested against the launch of a spacecraft. Most of them were convinced that using plutonium to fuel the rockets attached to the probe was risky. Cassini …
Although most falling debris is burnt up when it re-enters the atmosphere, there have been costly and potentially dangerous exceptions. On January 24, 1978, a nuclear-powered satellite launched by the erstwhile Soviet Union, Cosmos 954, crashed over northwestern Canada, spilling radioactive debris. The Canadian government presented the USSR with a …
the Mars Pathfinder may have lost its way on the red planet. Scientists at the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ( nasa 's) Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( jpl ) at Pasadena, California, have virtually given up hope of reviving the probe. Both the Pathfinder lander and its 10-kg rover, …
during all of the cruise, the project scientists have been busy planning what they will investigate when the probe gets near Saturn. Their plans go into action about six months before the spacecraft's arrival at Saturn. And 19 days before arrival, a flyby past Saturn's most distant satellite, Phoebe, is …
