SPACE PROGRAMMES OF 2020
Summary of some of the space launches scheduled for 2020 NASA Mars Rover Atlas v rocket will be the vehicle in July 2020 Planning to land in Jezero crater of Mars This can collect rocks, soil samples and store them in a cache Also understanding that whether the earlier environment were conducive to life forms […]
COMPANY PAINTING
Background In the 18th and 19th centuries, Indian artists were employed mainly by the British East India Company, and, to a lesser extent, by other European East India companies to record picturesque sites, monuments, festivals, royalty, zenana and nautchkhana Some Insights: A blend of Indian and European styles, these works are known as the Company […]
THE GLOBAL OCEAN HEATS UP
Why in news? One of the biggest revelations of the Special Report On The Ocean And Cryosphere In A Changing Climate, released in September 2019 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was how much the global ocean has heated up. How is it heating? Since 1970, the report said, 90% of the excess […]