MCQ – GK Questions

During the final descent phase on September 7, 2019, Vikram deviated from its intended trajectory and experienced a hard landing, resulting in loss of communication. The orbiter, however, continues to function successfully.

Venus takes about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation on its axis, making it the slowest rotating planet. Its day is longer than its year (225 Earth days).

Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman to go to space (1997). Sunita Williams is also of Indian origin but Kalpana Chawla was the first.

Both INSAT and GSAT series satellites have transponders dedicated to tele-education and tele-medicine services, connecting remote areas to urban centers.

China's Chang'e 4 mission successfully landed on the far side of the Moon in January 2019, a first in history.

Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Its volcanic activity is driven by tidal heating from Jupiter's gravity.

SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle) is designed for launching small satellites (up to 500 kg) to LEO. It offers low cost and low turn-around time.

Neptune had a large storm system known as the Great Dark Spot, observed by Voyager 2 in 1989. Unlike Jupiter's spot, Neptune's dark spots appear and disappear over time.

JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission successfully collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu and returned them to Earth in December 2020.

The NavIC constellation consists of 7 satellites: 3 in geostationary orbit and 4 in inclined geosynchronous orbit.

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It is expected to collide with the Milky Way in about 4.5 billion years.

Aditya-L1 is India's first solar mission, designed to study the Sun's corona, solar emissions, and space weather.

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is so large that it is also classified as a dwarf planet.

Roscosmos, the Russian state space corporation, is responsible for the Soyuz spacecraft, which has been used for decades to transport cosmonauts and astronauts to the ISS.

Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar probe, was launched by ISRO in October 2008. It operated until August 2009.

Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field of all the planets in the Solar System, about 20,000 times stronger than Earth's.

The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is the oldest light in the universe, dating back to about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. It effectively marks the limit of the observable universe in terms of time/light.

The Philae lander, part of the ESA's Rosetta mission, became the first spacecraft to soft-land on a comet (67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko) in November 2014.

Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. It is even larger than the planet Mercury.

The United States, through NASA's Apollo program, was the only country to successfully land humans on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two.