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Source: Internet India’s second moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-2’ is expected to reach the moon’s orbit on August 20 and land on the lunar surface on September 7, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Dr K Sivan said on Monday. The spacecraft is all set to leave the earth’s orbit after two days, he told reporters here. Sivan was on the city to take part in the birth centenary celebrations of Dr Vikram Sarabhai, regarded as the father of India’s space programme. The 3,850-kg Chandrayaan-2, a three-module spacecraft comprising orbiter, lander and rover, which was launched on July 22, would make a landing on the moon on September 7, the ISRO chief said. “After launching Chandrayaan-2 on July 22, we did five maneuvers. The Chandrayaan-2 composite body is now revolving around the earth,” he said. The next very important and crucial maneuver will happen on Wednesday morning. “At around 3.30 am on August 14, we are going to have a maneuver called trans-lunar inject...

Source:https://crev.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NASA-plasmasphere-magnetosphere.jpg NASA's  spacecraft Magnetospheric Multiscale mission -mms-, some time ago, measured the high-resolution of the Interplanetary Shock.  It is a shock.  And these shocks occur everywhere in the universe, they are made up of particles and electromagnetic waves, which are projected by the Sun.  In order to learn about large universal events, we need to measure the Interplanetary Shock at the right time.  What is interplanetary shock ? Interplanetary Shock is a type of collisionless shock - those where particles transfer energy through electromagnetic fields rather than bouncing directly into each other.  These collision shocks are a phenomenon found throughout the universe, including supernovas, black holes, and distant stars.  Interplanetary shocks begin with the sun's rays, as it continuously releases currents of charged particles called solar wind.  Sol...