If all goes well with the Saturday evening rocketing of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49) then the Indian space agency would have slung a total of 328 foreign satellites, all for a fee. The 26-hour countdown for the Saturday rocket launch from the first launch pad will begin on Friday afternoon. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3503g7a
Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, October 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more than enough material to meet one of its main mission requirements - acquiring at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid's surface material. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Tl5tDB
A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return to Earth. It was a first for the United States — only Japan has scored asteroid samples. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3odISaa
A new study by clinical psychologist, Emily Kroska at the University of Iowa shows how people might reduce their distress during the coronavirus pandemic. The study, "Psychological flexibility in the context of Covid-19 adversity: Associations with distress," was published in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3k25isF
NASA's leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/352Mxzd
Antibodies in serum samples collected from patients infected with SARS-CoV during the 2003 outbreak effectively neutralised SARS-CoV-2 infection in cultured cells, according to a new study. The study was published in the journal --Science Advances. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/33MGfUK
Scientists have developed a novel method to determine how fast the Indian Ocean is warming by analysing the sound from seabed earthquakes, an advance that may lead to a relatively low-cost technique to monitor water temperatures in all of the oceans. from Science News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3kswSz9