Mars rovers hit with another glitch

The mars rovers have hit another computer glitch after suffering from a similar malfuntion only about 3 months ago.

The Mars rover Spirit appeared to reboot its computer, unprompted from the ground, twice over the past weekend, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reported late yesterday.

The scientist at NASA has not yet found an explanation to this, apparently the only thing they know is that the rovers battery is fully charged and the temperature is within range..

NASA all set to find the origin of Earth and moon

Well guys, NASA has another thing to cheer about. They are all set to find the origin of our own planet along with the moon.

NASA is using the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory to discovery the origins of the moon.Many scientists consider the moon, which has been visited only by 12 Apollo astronauts in known history, a body that was formed when something struck a young Earth expelling part of its molten core to make the moon.

NASA is using the public in the search by scrutinizing photos as they come in from the spacecraft. If a sky watcher views a dot of light moving with respect to the stars, you may have found a piece of the ancient planet.

India to lauch Spy Satellite

In midst of all the threat from terrorists and other anti national forces, India is all set to launch a Spy Satellite into orbit.

The satellite to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would primarily keep an eye on India’s borders round-the-clock.The 300-kg radar-imaging spy satellite, which is built by Israel, will be launched on April 20. It is set to blast-off with India’s home-grown rocket ‘Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) onboard.

The satellite will be positioned 550 km above the earth, this remote-sensing advanced imaging satellite, has all-weather capabilities, including under cloud cover, a capability that Indian satellites do not have.

The spy satellite, which will primarily be used for used for defense and surveillance, would carry Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload, which can take images during day and night.

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India all set for Sun mission Aditya

India will send its space mission to the Sun in 2012 to find out answers for how and why solar flares and solar winds disturb the communication network and play havoc with electronics back home on the Earth.

Mission Aditya has been on the cards for quite some time now and it got a boost after the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1 lunarcraft into its designated orbit around the Moon.

The success of the Aditya Mission will not only solve some of the mysteries surrounding the Sun but also provide vital clues for ISRO on how to protect its satellites and spaceware from being damaged by hot winds and flares ejected out of the corona, the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere. The temperature in corona ranges between 8 lakh to 30 lakh Celsius. Material is ejected from the corona into space containing several billion tons of matter with speed ranging to several million miles per hour. Such material interacts with spacecraft and other man-made material in its path inducing electrical currents. They also damage power systems, disrupt communications and degrade high-tech navigation systems.