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02 Oct

NASA’s InSight lander ‘hears’ strange sounds on Mars

Washington: NASA has released recordings of eerie sounds on Mars picked up by one of its missions to the Red Planet, the InSight lander.Far below the human range of hearing, these recordings had to be speeded up and slightly processed to be audible through headphones, NASA said on Tuesday. The spacecraft's exquisitely sensitive seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), can pick up vibrations as subtle as a breeze. The instrument was provided by the French space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), and its partners. The instrument was designed to listen for quakes on Mars, known as marsquakes.…

07 Sep

Stay steady, our best yet to come: Modi to ISRO scientists

Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed the scientists of ISRO, hours after the much-anticipated Vikram lander lost signal moments before its moon landing. Boosting the morale of Team Chandrayaan-2, he inspired them to march on, saying: "You came as close as you could. Stay steady and look ahead." He said every person was aware of the amount of disappointment they were feeling following the setback. Modi said if a poet was to write about this, he would mention: "Chandrayaan rushed towards Chandra Maa to hug her..." which drew a loud applause from the audience. Minutes later, the Prime Minister…