Mars 2020 Mission Overview The Mars 2020 rover mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The Mars 2020 mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars exploration, including key questions …
What is Spear Phishing? Spear phishing is an email or electronic communications scam targeted towards a specific individual, organization or business. It is a targeted attempt to steal sensitive information such as account credentials or financial information from a specific …
Context: Innovations in managing the COVID-19 pandemic can help India revolutionise care delivery and related outcomes. Dharavi’s success strategy: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru are among India’s major metropolitan agglomerations and are also the current foci of the pandemic …
SARS-CoV-2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus causing the corona virus disease (COVID-19). It is the successor of SARS-CoV-1 which appeared in 2002. It was first named in February 2020. It has a spike protein …
Why in News? China successfully launched its first Mars probe- Tianwen-1- recently atop the Long March-5 rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern China’s island province of Hainan. About China’s first Mars mission Tianwen-1 or …
About Hope mission of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is the Arab region’s first attempt to go interplanetary. The spacecraft will spend seven months trekking through deep space before slipping into orbit around Mars. From that point, Hope will spend …
About Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, to study the Sun. Solar Orbiter was launched to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida on …
What is a Cryptocurrency? A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend. “Crypto” refers to the various encryption algorithms and cryptographic techniques that safeguard these digital …
What is airborne transmission? Airborne transmission is defined as the spread of an infectious agent caused by the dissemination of droplet nuclei (aerosols) that remain infectious when suspended in air over long distances and time. Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 …
Life Cycle of a Star Stars are formed in clouds of gas and dust, known as nebulae. Nuclear reactions at the centre (or core) of stars provide enough energy to make them shine brightly for many years. The …