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6 August 2012 Current Affairs

Curiosity  Landed on Red Planet

The Robotic Explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of mars, steering itself to gentle landing inside again crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet. It was NASA’s seventh landing on earth’s Neighbor.In November 2011 American Space Research Centre NASA Launched the curiosity into the space. On  6 Aug 2012 the Curiosity landed safely on the Mars.The Voyage to Mars took more than eight months and spanned 352m million miles(566 million kilometers). It sliced through Martian atmosphere ay 13,000mph(21,000kph). At first  scientists prediction is the  enormous amounts of Information, Including a possible answer to whether Mars ever supported conditions for Organic life, to find evidence of life itself,alive or fossilized-its raft of 10 scientific instruments will hunt for carbon based compounds considered essential to microbial life. It stays 2 years in Mars to collect all these Information. This is the next space mission of NASA after 1970. Ashwini, Indo-American scientist involved in this mission.

Usian Bolt Sets Olympic Record

Jamaican Bolt won gold in men’s 100 meter race with 9.63 seconds by setting Olympic Record of the fastest 100 in history of Olympics and second fastest 100 in history title after united states carl Lewis. Bolt holds a world record of 9.58 second in 100 meter racing, the record he set at the Balin World Championship in 2009. This final event viewed by around 20 million viewers.

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