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- 2 DRDO Tests Indigenous Air Droppable Container ADC-150
- 3 India Tests Indigenous Floating LiDAR Buoy System
- 4 INS Anjadip Commissioned
- 5 Indian Army Expands Pinaka Rocket Artillery Regiments
- 6 ISRO Tests Upgraded CE20 Cryogenic Engine for LVM3
- 7 Scientists Detect Magnetic Waves Deep Inside the Sun
- 8 Minor Planet Centre Announces Discovery of 15 New Moons
- 9 India Establishes Pilot Plant for Rare Earth Magnets at ARCI
- 10 Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Project in Lakshadweep
- 11 CERN Discovers New Particle “Xi-cc-plus” at Large Hadron Collider
- 12 IISc Launches Brain Co-Processors Moonshot Project
- 13 North East Institute Develops Bio-Based Surfactant for Cosmetics
- 14 Evolution of the Ladakh Magmatic Arc Decoded
- 15 LCH Prachand Sortie
- 16 Suspected Meningococcal Infection
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- 20 Quantum Labs Approved under National Quantum Mission
- 21 Silverpit Crater Confirmed as Asteroid Impact Site
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- 23 Dark Oxygen
Blood Moon
- On 3rd March 2026, skywatchers observed a total lunar eclipse, popularly called a “Blood Moon.”
- A Blood Moon refers to the reddish appearance of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse.
- It occur when Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow on the Moon.
- During totality, the Moon enters Earth’s umbra, the darkest central part of its shadow.
- Sunlight passing through Earth’s atmosphere scatters blue light, leaving red wavelengths reaching the Moon.
- This atmospheric filtering gives the Moon its characteristic coppery-red colour, hence the name “Blood Moon.”
- In India, the event was observed as Chandra Grahan, ....
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