World's most powerful Earth observation satellite will produce high-res images & data on various aspects of globe, including info to predict landslides, volcanoes, floods, earthquakes.
A first-of-its-kind, NISAR is the most powerful SAR satellite providing high-resolution images for scientists to better understand the processes involved in natural hazards.
Developed with NASA, the satellite took over a decade to build & costs $1.5 billion. NISAR will scan Earth’s land, ice, & oceans in areas of shared interest to US & Indian scientific communities.
The SNIFS sounding rocket launched on 18 July is an attempt to study the Sun's chromosphere, where the temperature, pressure & magnetic field of the Sun undergoes ‘dramatic changes’.
Researchers did functional magnetic resonance imaging to probe into brain activity in 87 participants as they thought of different future events marked as positive, neutral or negative.
Samudrayaan, which is part of gov’s larger Deep Ocean Mission, will send humans to a depth of 6,000 metres. Journey will be undertaken in a spherical submersible vessel, Matsya-6000.
Using hashtag 'ISROfixyourPR', the Indian science community on X attempts to lift the veil off ISRO's operations, with memes, anecdotes & a list of its not-so-public successes.
More than a decade in the making, NISAR will lift off from Sriharikota on 30 July. It was built jointly by ISRO and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assembled in India.
For someone who once wanted nothing to do with his hoary lineage, architect V Ganapati Sthapati brought about a veritable renaissance in temple architecture before his death in 2011.
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