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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - May 2015

May 2015

Jul 29, 2015

India's INSAT-3D Completes Two Years in Orbit

As per ISRO, INSAT-3D, India's Advanced Weather Satellite, has completed two successful years in orbit.
INSAT-3D is an exclusive mission designed for enhanced meteorological observations and monitoring of land and ocean surfaces for weather forecasting and disaster warning.
The satellite was launched by European rocket Ariane VA214 flight from French Guyana on July 26, 2013.

Jul 27, 2015

Scientists to Hunt for Alien Life on Jupiter Moons

After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life on the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
The European Space Agency announced that it would collaborate with aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus to launch a space probe in 2022 to look for extra-terrestrial existence on the four icy moons, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the ocean-bearing worlds of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto of Jupiter.

Jul 25, 2015

World’s First 4-Legged Snake Fossil Found

The first four-legged fossil snake ever found is forcing scientists to rethink how snakes evolved from lizards.
Although it has four legs, Tetrapodophis amplectus has other features that clearly mark it as a snake.
The creature’s limbs were probably not used for locomotion, the researchers say, but rather for grasping prey, or perhaps for holding on to mating partners. Such speculation inspired the snake’s name, which loosely translates as ‘four-legged hugging snake’.

Jul 24, 2015

NASA’s Kepler Mission Confirms First Earth-sized Planet

NASA confirmed the discovery of the first near-Earth-size planet, Kepler-452b, in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star.
The US space agency announced the major findings made by its planet-hunting mission, the Kepler Space Telescope.
According to NASA, the newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting in the habitable zone, the area around a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of an orbiting planet, of a G2-type star, like our sun.
The confirmation of Kepler-452b brings the total number of confirmed planets to 1,030.

Jul 23, 2015

World First Bionic Eye Implant

Ray Flynn is the first person to get bionic eye implant with dry age-related macular degeneration.
It is also believed that he is the first human being to have the use of combined natural and artificial sight.
A team of British doctor performed the first bionic eye implant with the most common cause of sight loss at Manchester's Royal Eye Hospital.
The bionic eye implant works by converting the video images captured by a miniature camera mounted on glasses worn by the patient.

Soyuz Spacecraft Successfully Launched

Three astronauts aboard a Soyuz spacecraft successfully launched towards the International Space Station after a two-month delay caused by a Russian rocket failure.
The spacecraft blasted off on schedule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, US astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui of Japan.

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