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‘Red Planet spinning faster; ‘Zero Shadow Day:
days shrinking on Mars, A rare Celestial phenomenon’,

says NASA.’ experienced by Hyderabad.

NASA’s Insight Lander has discovered Hyderabad, the capital
that the Mars is spinning faster after the city of Telangana,
analysing the data collected by them. witnessed a rare
NASA’s Jet Propulsion laboratory celestial event called
researchers say one of the reasons for this ‘Zero Shadow Day’ on
could be the ice accumulating on the 3rd August, 2023.
polar caps of the planet. The cause of the
The study disclosed that the Mars’ cosmic event is the tilt of the Earth’s axis and its
rotation is rising by about 4 rotation around the sun.
milliarcseconds each year which is The shadow’s length is reduced when the
sun’s radiations reach the highest point
corresponding and the shadows of vertical objects
to a become invisible and called as ‘Zero
shortening of the Shadow’.
Martian day by a
fraction of a
millisecond per
year.

Ritika Ranga
06 PGT- Biology
SKV, Ayanagar

A Giant ‘Question Mark’
‘Plan a trip to space at
discoverd by James Webb A giant cosmic ‘question mark’ in space discovered by
a cost of Rs 6 crores.’
Telescope in Deep-Space. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has
mystified scientists. The image is going viral on social
media. Someusers called it an “alien reaction,” and some came up with conspiracy
theories.The ‘question mark is a remote galaxy or pair of galaxies getting entangled in each
other’s gravitational pull, says the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Baltimore.

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