Life on Mars? By: Ananya P

Life on Mars?

NASA recently found shallow deposits of Water Ice on Mars that astronauts could reach with a shovel. Water ice deposits have been found to be as little as just 1 inch below the surface. Although this is too shallow, it has gotten scientists scratching their heads. The scientists are still trying to collect more data regarding buried ice on Mars. NASA recently released a picture of the same, which indicates that there is lots of water ice throughout the Martian poles, not to count the numerous shallow deposits of the same. These are what NASA wants to focus on.

 What is most riveting about all of this is probably the fact that most of this is underground. The reason behind the same is simple—Mars has very little air pressure, and hence, water can’t last on the surface. It evaporates from solid to gas and this is swift and rapid. Therefore, all of the water ice deposits of the planet are hidden underground, in the only place where they can survive. NASA wrote in one of its blog posts ---“Martian water ice is locked away underground throughout planets’ mid-latitude. These regions near the poles have been studied by NASA’s Phoenix Lander, which scraped up ice, and MRO, which has taken many images from space of meteors imports that excavated this ice.” The study also stated that the astronauts made use of heat-sensitive instruments to find ice that could easily be dug up.

The possibility of life on Mars is also a subject of great interest in astrobiology. Liquid water doesn’t appear at the surface itself, but it could form ice, dust particles etc. A very small amount of water vapour is also present in the atmosphere, researchers said. Many researches have been conducted to find an answer to the question of whether life on Mars is possible or not. But this is a definite hint that life on the Red Planet, is somewhat possible.

-Ananya Priyadarshi

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Ayodhya Verdict by Ananya P

Ayodhya Verdict  

By- Ananya Priyadarshi 8K

Finally, the Hindu Muslim dispute that had been in the court for over last 70 years was settled on Saturday i.e is on 9^th Nov  2019  by a bench of five judges of Supreme Court. The  verdict was handed over for  construction of Ram temple on the disputed land.  The supreme court also allocated 5 acres at a prominent place in Ayodhya for construction of a Mosque. As per verdict 2.77 acre disputed land was given to Deity Lord Ram.

It had all started when Mir Baki, a commander of Mughal Emperor Babar constructed a mosque in  Ayodhya  about four centuries back. During British rule in year 1856-57, the British administration divided the worship area by putting railing in between inner and outer area of the mosque. The reason for this division was the dispute between Hindu and Muslims who often quarrelled over the place worship area. Muslim said, it is a mosque, whereas Hindu said, the structure has been built over a Hindu Mandir after destroying the same. As per arrangement made by Britishers,  Muslim used the inner portion of mosque while Hindu used the outer portion for worship.

On January 29^th, 1885 a man named Mahanth Raghubar Das files a suit to construct a temple at Ram chabutra of the disputed structure. The then District judge named dismissed it. In 1934 during Hindu Muslim riots, the dome of the structure at disputed site was destryed. The same was then repaired by Britishers.

On  23rd December 1949, Idols were found inside the central dome of the mosque which was probably done by Hindus.  On January 16, 1950, Gopal Singh Visharad file a suit in independent India in the case. One Mr. Gopal Visharad filed a suit for the right to pray and conduct pooja in the inner courtyard. The court allowed puja.

Since independence till 1986, numerous suits were filed by Hindu and Muslims for the claim of the structure. In year 1986, an advocate filed a suit for opening of gates of the structure for darshan by general public. The matter went to court and court allowed the gate to be opened for darshan by Hindus. The court ruling was challenged by Muslim group. The matter gradually took political turn and finally the structure was demolished by a group of Hindus on 6th December 1992. This led to widespread riots in country.

The matter went to Allahabad High Court, but the order of High court was cagain challenged in supreme court. Court ordered to maintain the same status at the disputed site.

On 8 January this year, the SC set up a five-judge bench to hear the title suit in Ayodhya. In February this year, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi formed a five-judge bench under him, along with Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice Nazeer, Justice Bobde and Justice Chandrachud. The bench proposed a court-monitored mediation by former SC Judge Justice FM Kalifulla, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu who were in the mediation panel. The mediation began on March 13 at Awadh University in Faizabad. Seven rounds of discussion took place but it didn’t yield results.

On August 2, the court decided to start regular hearing from August 6. The apex court heard the case regularly for 40 days and in the last 11 days one extra hour was given for parties to complete their hearing.

Finally, on 09.11.19, the bench of five supreme court judge, announced the verdict for construction of Grand Ram temple at 2.77 Acre disputed land and 5 acre land was also given to Muslim Waqf board for construction of a grand Mosque. The court condemned in strongest words that destroying public place of worship in 1992 was an unlawful act.

Court while announcing the verdict also said that the judgement for construction of Ram Temple is based on better evidences placed by Hindus before the court.

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Sanchita K presented intresting facts on swachhata in assembly.