NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission
Recently, as a result of NASA’s ‘Name the rover’ essay contest, the rover of Mars 2020 mission got a new official name: ‘Perseverance’. The mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Programme, a long-term plan chalked out for robotic exploration of the Red Planet.
Mars 2020 Mission
- The mission is scheduled for launch in July, 2020, when Earth and Mars will be in good positions relative to each other. This will help reach Mars using less power.
- It will be launched on an intermediate-class launch vehicle, Atlas V-541. Atlas was selected because it has the right lift-off capability for the ‘heavy ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material before the last six months of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Related Content
- 1 India-US Semiconductor Fabrication Agreement
- 2 UN Pact for the Future: Towards A New Era of Global Governance
- 3 Global Innovation Index 2024
- 4 Digital Agriculture Mission: A Step towards Transforming Farmers’ Lives
- 5 India-Singapore: Strengthening Bilateral Cooperation
- 6 SC Ruling on Sub-Classification of SCs & STs
- 7 Indian Carbon Market: Fulfilling Obligations of Paris Agreement
- 8 India-Austria: Boosting Bilateral Partnership
- 9 Supreme Court’s Ruling on States’ Taxation of Mining Activities
- 10 Climate Finance Taxonomy: Mobilising Investments towards a Sustainable Future
Current Affairs In Focus
- 1 Centre to Form National Interlinking of Rivers Authority
- 2 UN Report: Map and Monitor Peatland Degradation
- 3 Multiple Mega Food Parks and Integrated Cold Chain Projects Sanctioned under PMKSY
- 4 RBI Guidelines for Regulating Payment Aggregators and Payment Gateways
- 5 Revival of SAARC
- 6 PM Garib Kalyan Relief Package
