Kicking up plumes of moondust, Vikram landed at 6.03 pm, completing an improbable two-decade-long arc in India’s lunar exploration. If Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 pushed India into the elite club of space-faring nations, its third iteration propelled the world’s most populous country into its front row. Only three countries have successfully reached the lunar surface before. […]
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A solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon that occurs among the celestial bodies – Sun, Moon and Earth. The solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the light coming from it and thereby creating a shadow on the Earth. Scientists around the globe keep waiting for this […]