Urban areas are currently responsible for ~70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. Thus, understanding city-scale CO2 emissions and how they vary between cities with different urban densities is a critical task. While the relationship …
Mumbai: Scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon. These findings, published in the August 25 issue of Nature Geoscience, represent the first such remote detection of this type of lunar water, and were arrived at …
London: UK scientists have designed a concept mission to land astronauts on Mars by 2021 — 12 years before Nasa expects to send a manned mission to the Red Planet. The plan envisages a three-person crew journeying to Mars aboard a small two-part craft. Nasa says they will get on …
London: Mars had an oxygenrich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago a new Oxford study has found. Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago — well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen on Earth …
Washington: Moon dust samples gathered by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 lunar mission have been discovered inside a California lab warehouse after sitting in the dusty storage unnoticed for over 40 years. Vials of Moon dust brought back to Earth by Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — were found last …
Mumbai: Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what’s left remains quite active, recent findings from Nasa’s Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings on Monday at the European Geosciences Union 2013 General Assembly, in Vienna, says a Nasa statement late on Monday night. Evidence …
In January, NASA revealed satellite images showing dramatic visuals of air pollution over China. Consequently, a new analysis is reporting that more than 1 million people are dying prematurely every year from air pollution in China alone. We reported earlier that air pollution, especially around Beijing has greatly been influenced …
India uses the highest amount of groundwater next only to the USA. According to NASA, in India the groundwater is depleting at the rate of four centimetres every year, said Dr Steven Running of University of Montana. Delivering the fifth Jeremy Grantham Lecture at the Centre for Climate Change, IISc, …
Mumbai: Communications between ground stations and Nasa spacecraft at Mars will be affected in April because of the position of the planets, an announcement from the space agency said on Thursday. TOI has learnt that this will happen from April 4. This is happening at a time when Curiosity has …
Hundred years after Victor Hess discovered cosmic rays in 1912, astronomers have finally found proof of what they had always suspected — but could not find direct evidence — that these highly energetic particles, which are constantly bombarding the Earth’s atmosphere from all directions, originate in the aftermath of exploding …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan has the least availability of water and the least reliable supply, with only 162 out of the state's 222 towns receiving water everyday, says a World Bank report. India, while maintaining the targeted subsidies for the poor, can also provide more and better quality of water to its …
One of the most important space launches of the year has just occurred in California. It saw the Landsat-8 mission hurtle skywards on an Atlas rocket from the US Air Force base at Vandenberg shortly after 10:00 local time (18:00 GMT). The spacecraft will maintain the longest continuous image record …
Ridges In Craters Could Be Ideal Places To Search For Evidence Of Life, Says Study Washington: Narrow ridges found in Martian craters may actually be fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed on the red planet, a new study claims. Water flowing beneath the surface of ancient …
Most detailed study for forty years will also analyse climate change impact and allow ministers to examine forest 'from within' The Brazilian government is to launch a four-year tree census of the Amazon to improve understanding of the impacts of deforestation, climate change and conservation efforts. The study will also …
Some fish species living in the icy waters of the Antarctic can cope with warming waters, giving hope that they might adapt to the rising temperatures caused by global climate change, according to New Zealand researchers. University of Canterbury biology professor Bill Davison said waters around the Antarctic Peninsula had …
An Amazon rainforest area twice the size of California has been hit hard by a mega-drought that began in 2005 and caused widespread damage to the canopy that blankets the dense vegetation, says a new Nasa-led study. Scientists found that during the summer of 2005, more than 700,000 sq km, …
Last year was among the top 10 warmest in the modern global record, two U.S. climate-watching agencies reported on Tuesday, less than a week after 2012 was declared the hottest ever in the contiguous United States. The U.S. space agency NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration jointly issued …
Last year was among the top 10 warmest in the modern global record, two U.S. climate-watching agencies reported on Tuesday, less than a week after 2012 was declared the hottest ever in the contiguous United States. The U.S. space agency NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration jointly issued …
Ebb and Flow chased each other around the Moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin Nasa spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish. On Monday, they will plunge — seconds apart — into a mountain near the Moon’s north pole. It’s a …
NASA may have devoted many of its exploration resources to Mars recently, but the US space agency also has its eye on an icy moon of Jupiter that may be capable of supporting life. The agency is thinking about ways to investigate the possible habitability of Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon. …
