Solar System and Space

Martian Sunset
Martian Sunset
• The most and the 2nd most abundant material
available in sun are?
• Ans:
• Hydrogen and Helium
• The sun’s rays take about ____ min to reach
the earth
• Ans: 8 min
• What is AU?
• Ans: astronomical unit
• The sun is the closest star to Earth, at a mean
distance from our planet of 149.60 million km
(92.96 million miles).
• Sun produces energy by which process?
• Ans: Nuclear fusion
• What is the velocity/speed of light in air/
vacuum?
• Ans: 3*108m/s
• Nearest planet to the sun?
• Ans: Mercury
• Farthest planet from sun?
• Ans: Neptune
• Largest planet?
• Jupiter
• 2nd largest?
• Saturn
• How many galaxies are present?
• There are about 1011 galaxies (100 billion)
• Which planet is known as morning star?
• Ans: Venus
• Which planet is known as evening star?
• Ans: Venus
• Which is the brightest of all planets?
• Ans: Venus (heavy atmosphere- reflects)
• What is the period of rotation of earth about
its own axis?
1. 23 hrs 55 min
2. 23 hrs 56 min
3. 23 hrs 58 min
4. 23 hrs 59 min
• Ans: 2.
• Name of the galaxy we live in?
• Milky way
• Another name?
• Akash Ganga
• Shape of Akash Ganga?
• Ans: spiral
• circumference of the earth at the equator=
40,000 Km.
• time taken for 1 rotation: 23 hrs, 56 min.
• speed of rotation= 1670 km/hr.
• speed of revolution= 1,07, 226 km/hr.
 Coriolis Effect
• The result of the Coriolis Effect is:
• Projectiles are deflected towards the right at
northern latitudes.
• Projectiles are deflected towards the left at
southern latitudes.
 Coriolis Effect
• The Coriolis Effect
• First described by French physicist Gustave
Coriolis in 1835.
• Deflection of a projectile due to the Earth's
Rotation:
• An example:
• Fire a cannonball due North from a cannon on
the Equator.
• The cannon is moving east with the Earth's
rotation at a speed of 1670 km/hr.
• The cannonball retains its initial, faster,
eastward speed as it flies north (Newton's
First Law).
• The further north it flies, the slower the
eastward motion of the Earth's surface
beneath its flight.
• Result is a slight eastward deflection of the
cannonball from its original northward
trajectory. You get the same effect if you fire
the cannon towards the South.
• Which planet travels the fastest in space?
• Mercury
• Why?
• Answer: because the gravitational pull of the Sun is
highest on it becoz it is nearest to the Sun
• Where are Asteroids found?
• can be found orbiting
the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
• Where are dwarf planets found?
• Ans: All the dwarf planets are found in the Kuiper Belt
with the exception of Ceres which is found in the
asteroid belt.
• What is Kuiper Belt?
• The Kuiper Belt is a region of the solar system
beyond the orbit of Neptune. it is a icy and rocky
region consisting of
• Which is the densest planet ?
• Earth
• Next densest?
• Mercury
• Which planet has the lowest density?
• Ans: Saturn
• Which planet travels fastest through space?
• Mercury
• Which planet is the brightest in the sky?
• Venus
• Which planet appears to be the miniature
solar system?
• Jupiter
• What is a Great Red Spot?
• A massive storm in Jupiter
• Name 5 dwarf planets?
• Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. 
• Which of the dwarf planets is in the asteroid belt?
• Ans: Ceres.
• Which of the dwarf planets are in the Kuiper belt?
• Ans: Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.
• Which is the largest moon in the solar system?
• Ganymede (Jupiter)
• Which is the 2nd largest moon in the solar system?
• Ans: Titan (Saturn)
• Which was the first planet located through mathematical
predictions?
• Neptune
India’s Space Programme
• Which was India’s first satellite?
• Aryabhatta
• Other satellites by India?
• Rohini, Apple, INSAT
• Who is the father of Indian Space programme?
• Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
• Which is India’s first remote sensing satellite?
• IRS 1A (launched on March 17,1988)
• India’s first Satellite to the Moon?
• Chandrayan 1
• Chandrayan-1 was sent by which launch
vehicle?
• PSLV-XL (PSLV-C11)
• Where was Chandrayan Launched from?
• Launched from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota
• IDSN
• Indian Deep Space Network
• Which was India’s first Rocket Launching
Station?
• The Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching
Station (TERLS) was established near
Thiruvananthapuram in 1963
• Name two launch vehicles of ISRO
• Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and
Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle
(GSLV)
• Space organization of India is called?
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
• When was it started?
• 1969
• Where is its headquarter?
• Bangalore
• ISRO constituted which task force for taking up
the Lunar Mission?
• National Lunar Mission Task Force
• Full form of INSAT?
• Indian National Satellite System
• It is a multipurpose Geo-Stationary Satellite
• Who was the first indian to travel in space?
• Ans: Rakesh Sharma
• When?
• 2nd April, 1984
• He was on-board which vehicle?
• Ans: Soyuz- T 11 (Soviet rocket)
• It blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome
• In the same mission, Ravish Malhotra served
as a back-up for Rakesh Sharma
• But, he never went into space
• Who is the first woman of Indian origin in space?
• Ans: Kalpana Chawla
• Kalpana Chawla was aboard which flight when she
died of accident?
• Ans:  Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
• It happened in 2003
• Which indian satellite is named after Kalpana?
• MetSat-1, launched by India on September 12,
2002, is now known as "Kalpana-1".
• What was India’s first unmanned mission to Mars
called?
• Ans: Mangalyaan
• When was it launched?
• Ans: 5th Nov, 2013
• Why is it special internationally?
• Ans: it is the lowest cost mission to Mars achieved
thus far
• $ 74 million
• What is IRNSS?
• Ans: IRNSS is an independent regional
navigation satellite system being developed by
India
• Full form of IRNSS?
•  Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
• Developed by?
• ISRO
• When was IRNSS 1B launched?
• Ans: 4th April, 2014
• Launched by which rocket?
• Ans: PSLV-C24
• The first person in the world to land on the
moon?
• Ans: Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr.
of U.S.A.
• Armstrong was the first to set foot on the
moon followed by Aldrin in July 21, 1969.
• The first man to enter space?
• Ans: Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
• The first woman cosmonaut of the world?
• Ans: Velentina Tereshkova
• The first country to send man to the moon?
• Ans: U.S.A.
• India's first Mapping Satellite?
• Ans: CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005)
• The US software pioneer who became the first
person to travel twice to space as a tourist?
• Ans: Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009)
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