Items tagged with solar

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Using Solar Power to Derive Hydrogen Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 - 12:34:44 - Anuradha Menon The acidic gas hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an environmental pollutant because of its toxic, malodorous, and corrosive nature. Every year, millions of... read more

Indian Spacecraft Hits the Moon Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 12:04:05 - Anuradha Menon In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat today with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit... read more

New Jupiter - Type Planet Found Friday, November 14th, 2008 - 10:32:12 - Anuradha Menon NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star. Estimated to be no more than three times... read more

Cassini Finds Mysterious Aurora on Saturn Thursday, November 13th, 2008 - 12:05:09 - Anuradha Menon Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora... read more

The Deepest Image of the Universe Yet Saturday, November 8th, 2008 - 14:57:54 - Anuradha Menon Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colors, will enjoy the... read more

Indian Spacecraft Enters Lunar Trajectory Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 18:29:48 - Anuradha Menon The fifth and final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was successfully carried out today (November 4, 2008) morning at 04:56 am... read more

'Near Perfect' Absorption of Solar Energy Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - 16:07:24 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy... read more

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth Monday, November 3rd, 2008 - 12:22:58 - Anuradha Menon During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A... read more

iPhone Camera Captures Jupiter and Its Moons Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 - 18:44:51 - Anuradha Menon The fact that an amateur astronomer named Mike Weasner was able to take a photograph of Jupiter and its moons is hardly something worth a mention on... read more

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