Mars ROVER to roam the planet.
NASA on Friday said it will move forward with a super-sized rover to Mars next year. The space agency plans to work on a Mars Science Laboratory to roam the planet. The rover will be nuclear powered.
NASA on Friday said it will move forward with a super-sized rover to Mars next year. The space agency plans to work on a Mars Science Laboratory to roam the planet. The rover will be nuclear powered. The new six-wheel rover is the size of an SUV. It is powered by nuclear energy. However, the space agency needs more funding to complete the $2 billion project. Mission specialists hope to begin the first mission for the new rover to Mars next fall. By: Sara Smith Oct 11, 2008 11:48 AM GMT NASA on Friday announced that it needs more funding to resolve problems with its next Mars mission. The planned mission will launch next year. The space agency hopes that the U.S. Congress will find the extra funds needed. “If we’re going to launch in 2009 or 2011, additional budget resources are going to be necessary,” Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA headquarters, said in a statement. The mission will launch a Mars Science Laboratory to Mars. The new super-sized rover is nuclear-powered. NASA managers are already meeting to go over the progress of the mission. There are budget concerns over the new mission as the project’s costs continue to escalate. NASA has poured $1.5 billion into the project so far. The space agency says the final price tag is expected to be $2 billion. NASA’s Mars Science Lab will roam the Martian planet and study rocks. The study will determine if the Red Planet could support microbial life. The new rover will have a cargo of instruments that can probe rocks and soil. It has the technology to study rocks in finer detail than previous missions including a laser that can zap boulders from a distance. The new rover has six wheels and is the size of an average SUV.
Phoenix Lander Gathers Martian Snow
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NASA scientists say that snow is falling on Mars. The Phoenix Lander collected data presented the findings. Phoenix is now on its fifth month of space exploration on Mars.
Sep 30, 2008 15:25 PM GMT
NASA scientists say that the Phoenix Lander has captured snow falling from the Martian clouds. However, the snow vaporizes before reaching the Martian soil. The new findings were presented at a press conference on Monday.
“In the second half of the mission we saw frost, ground fog, and clouds. This is now occurring every night,” Jim Whiteway, lead scientist for the Phoenix Meteorological Station, said.
The recent discovery is another indication that water is on Mars. The team used laser instruments to study the Martian atmosphere. During the mission, the instruments detected snow. The snow was nearly 3 miles above the current Phoenix position.
Phoenix will now search for signs of snow on the ground. The lander is now on its fifth month of space exploration on Mars. It first arrived on the Martian surface on May 25. Several missions have found signs of water-ice in the soil.
The lander is currently on the planet’s northern polar region. It has collected and analyzed soil samples that unveil snow minerals.
Top Colleges for M.Tech in India
Top Colleges for M.Tech in India
Today there are seven Indian Institutes of Technology (or IITs) offering bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, management and other disciplines. The IITs are also known for world-class research. Each of the IITs maintain their own websites and each IIT also has their own Alumni Association, see links below. The pan-IIT alumni organization provides scale and services to alumni worldwide and serves as a focal point to disseminate information about IIT Alumni.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
BITS, Pilani , India
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India
IT-BHU, Varanasi, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
College of Engg , Anna University, Guindy, India
IIIT, Allahabad, India
Jadavpur University, Faculty of Engg & Tech, Calcutta, India
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India
National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India
National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India
Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi, India
Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India
National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, India
Motilal Nehru National Inst. of Technology, Allahabad, India
Thapar Inst of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India
Bengal Eng and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India
MANIT, Bhopal, India
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
IIIT, Hyderabad, India
IIIT, Bangalore, India
Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, India
Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India
VNIT, Nagpur, India
National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode, India
Dhirubhai Ambani IICT, Gandhinagar, India
Osmania Univ. College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India
College of Engineering, Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam, India
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India
SVNIT, Surat, India
Govt. College of Engineering, Pune, India
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India
R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India
University Visvesvaraya College of Engg., Bangalore, India
VJTI, Mumbai, India
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India
SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India
College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India
School of Information Technology, Calcutta, India
Inst of Chemical Technology, Mumbai University, Mumbai, India
Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai, India
P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India
Amrita Institute of Technology & Science, Coimbatore, India
National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India
B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, India
IIIT, Pune, India
Amity School of Engineering, Noida, India
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada, India
S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore, India
Chaitanya Bharathi Inst. of Technology, Hyderabad, India
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
SASTRA, Thanjavur, India
Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani, India
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantpur, India
M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
Gitam, Vishakhapatnam, India
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India
National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India
SV University Engineering College, Tirupati, India
National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India
Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India
ICFAI Inst of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, India
National Institute of Technology. Patna, India
Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women, Pune, India
VIT, Pune, India
Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering College, Nagpur, India
Muffakham Jah Engineering College, Hyderabad, India
Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India
D.J. Sanghvim Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Sathyabhama Engineering College, Chennai, India
Kongu Engineering College, Erode, India
Mepco Schlek Engineering College, Sivakasi, India
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India
Hindustan Inst of Engineering Technologym, Chennai, India
SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad, India
R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg, Guntur, India
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
K.L. College of Engineering, Veddeswaram, India
Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad, India
S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore, India
Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur, India
Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India
G.H. Patel College of Engineering & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar, India
*Disclaimer – the above information has been acquired through data available on the internet and is subject to change and the list of institutes is not in any ranking order.
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