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MENCA (Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser) is a quadrupole mass spectrometer onboard India's Mars Orbiter Mission, MOM. In Hindu mythology, Menaka was a nymph sent down to Earth from Indralok, the palace of the gods' god, Indra.Mar 2, 2016

MENCA brings divine wealth from Mars: First science results ...

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China's first Mars exploration mission named Tianwen-1

Xinhua-

The name comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questions or Questions to Heaven, written by Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC), ..

China names its Mars mission Tianwen-1 ahead of its planned ...

The Hindu-7 hours ago

India became the first Asian country to have successfully launched its Mars orbiter mission, Mangalyaan which has entered the orbit of the red ...

Mecca's Grand Mosque empty as Ramadan begins

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Mecca's Grand Mosque empty as Ramadan begins ... Ramadan, in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, during the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis.

Ramadan under lockdown: Aerial images show Mecca completely empty

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Aljazeera.com

Islam's holiest sites emptied by coronavirus crisis as Ramadan ...

National Post-

In a rare occurrence in Islam's 1,400 year history, Mecca's Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina – the religion's two holiest ...

Epidemics, war have impacted Muslim worship throughout ...
Aljazeera.com-Apr. 23, 2020

April 2020 Resurrection month

Sun May Be Moving Into Solar Cycle 25, Kicking Off a New ...

Newsweek-Apr. 3, 2020

Solar cycles have been tracked since 1755, however, the start of any cycle can only be determined at least six months after the minimum takes ...

The sun may kick off a new solar weather cycle this month

Space.com-Apr. 2, 2020

Right now, the sun is fairly calm as it wraps up what scientists dub solar cycle 24 and begins solar cycle 25. Scientists can't predict exactly when ...

Orthodox Easter 2020: Scaled-down 'holy fire' ceremony in ...

The Sofia Globe-Apr. 18, 2020

At Easter 2020, however, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church dropped its original plan to send a scaled-down delegation to Jerusalem, and on ...

Happy Orthodox Easter 2020
Baristanet-Apr. 19, 2020

Coronavirus: Orthodox Easter weekend marked under lockdown

BBC News-Apr. 18, 2020

Greece to use drones to stop crowds gathering for Orthodox ...
The Guardian-Apr. 17, 2020

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Flame moved to secret location following ...

Insidethegames.biz (blog)-Apr. 13, 2020

Organisers have not yet announced a revised schedule for the Torch Relay, which was originally to have lasted 121 days on Japanese soil. The ...

Tokyo Games organizers tasked with keeping Olympic flame ...
International-Kyodo News Plus-Apr. 11, 2020

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft carries out first of two rehearsals ...

Spaceflight Now-Apr. 15, 2020

Tuesday's practice run lasted around four hours, and the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft moved as close as 213 feet (65 meters) from asteroid Bennu, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Completes Rehearsal For Landing On ...
Mashable India-Apr. 16, 2020

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aces asteroid-sampling dress ...

Space.com-Apr. 17, 2020

OSIRIS-REx, which has been orbiting Bennu since 2018, is scheduled to attempt to swoop down to the surface to retrieve a sample of the asteroid ...

OSIRIS-REx probe rehearses asteroid sampling from lowest ...
New Atlas-Apr. 16, 2020

China to announce name of its first Mars exploration mission

SHINE-1 hour ago

China plans to launch the Mars probe in 2020, aiming to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission. Since 2016, China has set April ...

The eight names-- "Fenghuang" (phoenix), "Tianwen" (questions for heaven), "Huoxing" (Mars), "Tenglong" (soaring dragon), "Qilin" (Kylin), "Zhuque" (rose finch), "Zhuimeng" (chasing dreams) and "Fengxiang" (flying phoenix), were the top names chosen from over 14,500 choices submitted through more than 35,900 proposals entered by people worldwide.

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China's first Mars exploration mission named Tianwen-1

Xinhua-4 hours ago

The name comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questions or Questions to Heaven, written by Qu Yuan (about 340-278 ...

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/24/world/asia/24reuters-space-exploration-china-mars.html

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With successful splashdown, SpaceX retires first version of Dragon spacecraft

Spaceflight Now

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The spacecraft that utterly transformed SpaceX has flown its last mission

Ars Technica

Geneva, Apr 20 (PTI) Scientists have discovered a six-planet system -- a "super-Earth" and five "mini-Neptunes" which display an exceptionally regular spacing, hinting at how the system may have formed.

The planets revolving the star HD 158259 in the Draco constellation were found using the SOPHIE spectrograph installed at the Haute-Provence Observatory in the South of France, according to the study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/sixplanet-system-found-in-almost-perfect-orbital-harmony/1808285

2020 Deep Impact emphasis

2020 started with the final deep impact mission and the end of 2020 was the original launch date for DART.

NASA preps for 'Armageddon' style asteroid threat — but with ...

Jan 18, 2019 - Teslarati reports that sometime between December 2020 and June 2021, the ... DART will journey to a double asteroid called Didymos, which .

NASA's Lucy Mission Confirms Discovery of Eurybates Satellite

NASA (press release)-Jan. 11, 2020

NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a ...

Coronavirus pandemic puts pressure on time-sensitive space ...

Houston Chronicle-Mar. 26, 2020

Lucy is in pieces: solar arrays, a telescope structure and various other ... facility in Boulder, Colo., the team leading the NASA Lucy mission.

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Falcon Heavy to launch NASA Psyche asteroid mission ...

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Feb 28, 2020 

Osiris Rex tagsam Bennu the same day of the original Tokyo 2020 opening:
 August 25, 2020


Hayabusa 2 returning samples of Ryugu reentry December 2020:

https://www.dlr.de/content/en/images/2020/1/december-2020-return-to-earth.html


2020 Deep Impact:
https://sfphere.blogspot.com/2020/01/deep-impact-grand-slam.html