Tag: Earths

Bengaluru: The ISRO on Tuesday said Chandrayaan-3 has completed its orbits around the earth and is now heading towards the Moon. “A successful perigee-firing performed at ISTRAC (ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network). ISRO has injected the spacecraft into the translunar orbit,” it said. The key manoeuvre was carried ...

HYDERABAD: An earthquake similar in magnitude to the one that hit Turkey is “imminent” in the fault lines of the Uttarakhand region and can happen “any time”, chief scientist of seismology at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Dr N Purnachandra Rao, has warned.Rao told TOI that a lot ...

The picture showed not just the lights of India and neighbours Pakistan, but also captured the well-lit border that separates the two countries. (Twitter/International Space Station)International Space Station (ISS) astronauts have a habit of throwing up some truly out-of-the-world pictures that leave enthusiasts spellbound. And they were at it ...

Temperatures surged to an astounding 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) in Death Valley, California, on Sunday, measurements that, if confirmed, could the highest verified on Earth since at least 1913, officials said. The National Weather Service confirmed Sunday’s preliminary high temperatures and said they would need to be verified ...