India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan celebrated its 69th Independence Day of India by sending home three-dimensional images of the Solar system’s largest Valles Marineris canyon on Mars. The picture captured with special Mars colour camera, at an attitude of 1154miles 1857km from the surface of the red planet Mars. The Valles Marineris canyon system is…
Category: Astronomy
From nearly 1 million miles,160,000 km away, a NASA’s Polychromatic imaging 4 megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a stunning view of the far side of the moon as it moved in front of the sun-lit side of Earth last month. The images show the fully…
Pluto, the dwarf planet send amazing surface pictures via New Horizon spacecraft after travelling 9 years and 3 billion miles. The detailed image send back to earth about 7, 750 miles above the surface, roughly the distance from Mumbai to New York. Pluto is the dwarf planet in a region of space at the edge…