22 April 2020
Happy Earth Day 2020!
...and climate . The brainchild of US Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was first launched in 1970, when around 20 million ... Climate Action is therefore very apt. Although, plans for Earth day 2020 have been upended by the coronavirus crisis, people are...
22 April 2021
Earth Day 2021 - What can you do to help?
... study. More than 1 billion people in 192 countries now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. To be a part of Earth Day and to help further climate action across the globe, head over...
06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
... and, ike the Vikram lander is designed to last one lunar day (14 Earth days). The overhead orbiter, Chandrayaan-2, however is expected to spend a .... Vikram already separated from its mothership four days ago and has since performed two manoeuvres to...
01 December 2020
China's Chang'e 5 probe successfully lands on the Moon
... will take place over the course of one lunar day – the equivalent to around 14 Earth days. Chang'e-5 is the world's first moon-sample mission... is complete, the lunar samples will be returned to Earth via the ascender, which will take off and dock ...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... ago. Although only designed for a lifetime of three lunar days (approximately three Earth months), Lunokhod 1 operated on the lunar surface for eleven lunar days (321 Earth days) and traversed a total distance of 10.54 kilometres. Its counterpart...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
...rpm – many times faster than a passenger helicopter on Earth. This marvel of engineering is the first aircraft humanity...Martian nights, the small craft will have a 30-Martian-day (31-Earth-day) experimental flight-test window in which it will attempt ...
