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Virat Markandeya

ARTICLES BY VIRAT MARKANDEYA

Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander, as photographed by the Pragyan rover, on the lunar surface. (Courtesy: Isro)

Chandrayaan-3: To the Moon and beyond

18 min read . 16 Sept 2023

The ‘Genesis’ rock, brought back from the moon by ‘Apollo 15. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

When the moon samples came to India

5 min read . 10 Nov 2018

Photographs courtesy NASA

A deep space odyssey like no other

6 min read . 09 Nov 2018

The GRAPES-3, located 7km from Ooty, is designed to study cosmic rays with an array of air-shower detectors and a large-area muon detector. Photographs: Hemant Mishra/Mint.

Counting muons amid the ‘shola’ forests

11 min read . 15 Apr 2017