28
Feb
Gaganyaan

4 astronauts to capture Gagan (Gaganyaan Mission)

India recently introduced the four astronauts selected for its ambitious Gaganyaan mission, putting the country one step closer to sending humans to space. Gaganyaan, meaning “sky craft” in Hindi, will be India’s first crewed space mission, cementing its place among the elite club of nations having independent human spaceflight capability. The four astronauts – Prashanth Nair, Ajit Krishnan, Angad Pratap,…

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27
Feb

5 facts about Iapetus by Cassini spacecraft

Surface Features Iapetus has an unusual walnut-shaped form, with large elevation differences of up to 20 kilometers between the equatorial bulge and polar depressions. The most striking surface feature is the equatorial ridge spanning nearly 75% of Iapetus’s 79,000 km circumference, reaching over 20 km tall and 70-90 km wide. Theories on its formation include partly remnants of an ancient…

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