Phobos Current Affairs, GK & News
Perseverance: Capture of ‘Solar Eclipse on Mars’
The Perseverance Mars rover of NASA has captured a video of an eclipse on Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars. Overview: The video captured by the Perseverance rover is the highest-frame-rate observation and the most zoomed-in of a solar eclipse that has been captured from the Martian surface. This Martian eclipse has provided ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2022
Category: International / World Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Mars • NASA • Perseverance Rover • Phobos • Solar Eclipse on Mars
ISRO’s Mangalyaan captures images of Phobos, Biggest moon of Mars
The Mars orbiter of the Indian Space Research Organization has captured images of Phobos, the biggest moon of Mars. Highlights The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft was placed in Mars orbit in September 2014. By this India entered the elite group of countries that hold an orbiter around the planet. The other countries that hold satellites ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: European Space Agency • ISRO • Mangalyaan • Mars Orbiter Mission • Phobos • Space exploration
MSL Mission and Curiosity Rover
Recently NASA has 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 on August 6, 2012. Curiosity will attempt a more precise landing than attempted previously and then help assess Mars’s ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2012
Topics: Aeolis quadrangle • Astrobiology • Astronomy • Curiosity • Exploration of Mars • Gale • Life on Mars • Mars • Mars rover • Outer space • Phobos • Rover