NASA announces Mars 2020 rover payload
On July 31, NASA announced the roster of instruments that would hitch a ride on board its planned rover to the red planet in 2020. John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for the NASA Sc…
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One of the hottest planets cold enough for ice
This article, as written by me, appeared in The Hindu on December 6, 2012. -- Mercury, the innermost planet in the Solar System, is like a small rock orbiting the Sun, continuously assaulted by the…