MSL Mission

In later half of 2011, NASA had launched the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) with the aim to land and operate a rover named Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars at Gale Crater ..

Metallic microlattice

Metallic microlattice is a metal developed by a team of researchers from University of California at Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology. The image in the right show the Metallic microlattice is resting on a dandelion fluff ..

Megha Tropiques

In 2011, the Indo-French satellite Megha-Tropiques was successfully placed in orbit by the PSLV-C18 rocket as part of a key mission that will help understand global tropical weather. Along with Megha-Tropiques, three nano satellites – VesselSat – 1 from Luxembourg, ..

Malvinas

Falkland Islands are known in Argentina as the Malvinas. They were the prize in the 1982 British-Argentine war, and Britain thus far has brushed off Buenos Aires’ territorial claims in the drilling area. While a renewal of the 1982 military ..

M-STrIPES

The full form of M-STrIPES is Monitoring System for Tigers’-Intensive Protection and Ecological Status. It’s a software monitoring system launched by the Indian Government in 2010 in some tiger reserves. The aim is to reduce vulnerability of Tigers. The system ..

Mokusatsu

The Mokusatsu in Japanese means to "Ignore". It was used (allegedly) by Japan as a response to Allied demands in the Potsdam Declaration for unconditional surrender in World War II.