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*The Carl Sagan Memorial station situated in the planet
Ans : Mars
*The space probe sent to Mars by NASA on November 2013 to study the upper atmosphere of Mars
Ans : MAVEN (Mars atmosphere and volatile evolution)
*The atmospheric research orbiter built in collaboration between European Space Agency and Russia, launched on 19 October 2016 to gain a better understanding of methane and other trace gases in Martian atmosphere Trace Gas Orbiter
*Atomic oxygen is found in the atmosphere of Mars
Mangalayan
(Mars Orbiter Mission - MoM)
*India’s first interplanetary mission
Ans : Mangalyaan
*First Mars mission of ISRO
Ans : Mangalyaan
*World’s least expensive mission to Mars
Ans : Mangalyaan (450 crore)
*The first nation to reach Mars orbit on its first attempt
Ans : India
*The first Asian country to launch space craft to Mars
Ans : India (The 4th nation in the world)
*The other three countries that launched spacecraft to Mars before India
Ans : Russia, USA, European Union
*The official name of Mangalyaan project
Ans : Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)
*Mangalyaan was manufactured by Indian Space Research Organisation Satellite Centre (ISAC).
Ans : Mangalyaan was launched on
Ans : 5th November 2013 (at Sathish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota)
*The vehicle that launched Mangalyaan into Mars Orbit
Ans : PSLV C - 25
*The launch mass of Mangalyaan
Ans : 1337 kg
*Mangalyaan reached the Mars orbit on
Ans : 24th September 2014
*The total distance covered by Mangalyaan breach the orbit
Ans : 66.6 crore km
*The important instruments in Mangalyaan
Ans : Methane Sensor, Colour Camera
*The country which, supported India during Mars Orbiter Mission
Ans : Fiji.
*The Director of Mangalyaan mission
Ans : P. Kunhikrishnan
*The project director of Mangalyaan
Ans : S. Arunan
*The ISRO chairman at the time of Mangalyaan launching
Ans : K. Radhakrishnan
*Cassini-Huygens Mission,a joint project of NASA and Europen Space Agency (ESA),was lanuched in 1997 to study Saturn,Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit. Since 2004 Cassini has been orbiting the Saturn.
* Huygens was separated from the Cassini orbiter and landed on Titan on January 14, 2005.
Jupiter
*Period of Revolution -12 years
*Period of Rotation - 9 hours, 50 minutes,30 seconds
*The largest planet in the solar system
Ans : Jupiter
*The planet known as Jovian planet
Ans : Jupiter
*The planet with most number of satellites
Ans : Jupiter (around 67 satellites)
*The largest satellite in our solar system
Ans : Ganymede (Satellite of Jupiter)
*The satellite with most number of volcanoes
Ans : Io
*Jupiter and its satellites are collectively known as
Ans : Mini Solar system
*Great red spot is seen in
Ans : Jupiter
*The fastest rotating planet
Ans : Jupiter
*The planet with shortest day and shortest night
Ans : Jupiter
*Jupiter is 11 times bigger than Earth.
*The time taken by Jupiter to make one revolution around the sun
Ans : 12 Earth years
*The planet with strongest magnetic field and gravitational force
Ans : Jupiter
*On jupiter, objects experiences more weight.
*In July 1994, comet shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with
Ans : Jupiter
*The mission launched by NASA to study on Jupiter
Ans : Juno
Saturn
*period of Revolution -30 years
*period of Rotadon-10 hours, 14 minutes
*The second largest planet in the solar system
Ans : Saturn
*The planet named after the God of agriculture in Roman mythology
Ans : Saturn
*The planet with the second highest number of satellites
Ans : Saturn (around 62 satellites)
Cape Kennedy of India
*India's only satellite launching station
Ans : Satish Dhawan Space Centre
*Satish Dhawan Space Centre is situated in
Ans : Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh).
*It is known as ‘Cape Kennedy of India’.
*India’s spaceport
Ans : Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
