Rare rock with 30,000 octahedral diamonds

A rare rock of the size of a golf ball ensconced with 30,000  tiny octahedral diamonds sized between 10 to 700 microns with speckles of green and red garnet was discovered in Udachnaya diamond mine, in Northern Siberia. A professor from the University of Tennessee in the US is studying  this rare rock  by beaming electrons to trace the…

India’s Mars Orbiter completes 100 days in Martian orbit

Chennai: India’s Mars Orbiter completed 100 days of its Martian orbit on the New Year’s Day 2015 according Indian space agency officials. The Mars Orbiter was inserted in Martian orbit Sep 24, 2014 is in good health, said officials of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Mars Orbiter has sent different pictures of the red…