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The powered descent, which India will attempt for the first time, was described as “fifteen minutes of terror” by the ISRO chairperson K Sivan. “It will be a terrifying moment for us. Everybody’s eyes would be glued to their consoles. The telemetry parameters will keep telling us that we are going in the right direction, but at the same time, there will be a lot of anxiety about what will happen in the next moment,” ISRO chairperson K Sivan

The separation of Vikram, which is set for soft landing on September 7 on the lunar surface along with rover ‘Pragyan’, was carried out at 1.15 pm and all systems of Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and the lander were healthy, it said.

The project proposes to send a submersible vehicle with three people to a depth of about 6, 000 metres, to carry out deep underwater studies, National Institute of Ocean Technology Director MA Atmanand said.

Once the separation is successful, India will only be less than a week away from Moon landing, which is scheduled for 1.55am on September 7. And, a successful landing will make it only the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to have achieved such a feat.

“There are 18,000 scientists, belonging to 111 nationalities at CERN, and 400 of them are from India. Most of these 400 are from institutes within India, while some also come through affiliations of other premier institutes from across the world, mostly the US,” Gianotti said.

professors also have another reason for their delight — they recently completed trials of the world’s first robot exoskeleton hand that will significantly help in the rehabilitation of stroke patients.

The sensor canoperate at room temperature and under ambient light. Tests performed under dark and illuminated conditions indicate that it has high sensitivity and could detect particulate matter as low as one part per million. Nitrogen oxides areemitted by automobile vehicles and thermal power plants and are toxic.

Citizen science is nothing but scientific work undertaken by common people, in collaboration with scientists and research institutes. People participating in such projects are not scientists themselves or even students of science. All they need is inclination towards science and basic knowledge about data collection.

“The next launch will be cartography satellite Cartosat-3. The launch will be towards the end of October or early November this year,” Sivan told.

IIT-Madras has established a cancer genomics facility, and in the last four years, has collected 3,000 tissue and blood samples of cancer patients in and around Chennai. The idea was to collect 10 lakh tissue samples from across the country.