Topics from December 2019
- How are they calculate the age of earth?
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- How astronomers discover unknown planets?
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- How they search for the edge of the universe?
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- How are they measure the speed of Galaxy?
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- How are they measure the distance of near galaxies?
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- How do scientists know the distance of the farthest stars?
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- How do scientists know the distance of the distant stars?
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- How do scientists know the distance of the nearby stars?
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- How do scientists know the distance of the Sun?
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- How do scientists know the distance between the planets?
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- What is the distance of moon from earth?
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- How do satellite pictures get back to Earth?
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- Is there a planet 10?
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- What forces act on a rocket in space?
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- What are Voyager’s Nuclear Power Generators?
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- How do astronomers know the size of the universe?
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- How Astronomers weigh stars?
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- Why telescopes use mirrors rather than lenses?
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- What were the first two spacecraft to rendezvous in space?
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- Which spacecraft achieved first lift-off from the moon?
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- What is the Arecibo message?
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- Is India planning on sending humans into space?
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- What is the status of Chandrayaan 2?
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- Who is known as the ‘Rocket Woman of India’?
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- Why was the launch of Chandrayaan 2 delayed?
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- Does Chandrayaan 2 have a Russian connection?
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- Which launch vehicle was used for launching Chandrayaan 2?
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- How many payloads did Chandrayaan 2 carry?
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- What is special about the Pragyan rover?
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- What was Chandrayaan 2’s lander known as?
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- What do we know about the design of Chandrayaan 2?
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- When was Chandrayaan 2 launched?
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- What makes Chandrayaan 2 unique?
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- What were the primary objectives of Chandrayaan 2?
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- When was Chandrayaan envisioned?
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- Did Chandrayaan 1 gain global recognition?
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- What was the revolutionary discovery that Chandrayaan 1 made?
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- What is special about Chandrayaan 1’s Moon Impact Probe?
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- How were Chandrayaan 1’s payloads developed?
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- What do we know about the scientific payload of Chandrayaan 1?
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- When was Chandrayaan 1 launched?
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- Why is Chandrayaan 1 a great achievement for India?
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- What are India’s remarkable achievements in the field of space research?
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- Which organisation carries out India’s space research?
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- What were the objectives of the Lunar Prospector?
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- What were NASA’s other Moon endeavours?
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- What is special about Apollo 17?
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- What happened to Apollo 13?
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- Who first drove on the Moon?
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- Why is Eagle famous?
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- Why did Apollo 11 create history?
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- What do we know about the design of the Apollo spacecraft?
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- Which was the first manned-flight of the Apollo mission?
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- How did Saturn V play an important role in Moon explorations?
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- What are the challenges a lunar probe faces on its journey to the Moon?
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- Why was the Apollo programme one of the most ambitious projects in the history of America?
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- Which was America’s first human spaceflight programme?
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- Did the Cold War affect the exploration of the Moon?
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- Which organization envisioned the Surveyor program?
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- What do we know about the Lunar Orbiter program?
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- What do we know about America’s early attempts to reach the Moon?
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- Why do scientists aim for a point in space rather than the Moon itself when they want a spacecraft to reach the Moon?
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- Which among Soviet Union’s spacecraft brought back samples of lunar soil to the Earth?
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- Why were lunar probes sent to the Moon before humans?
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- Which was the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon?
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- Which lunar probe made the first successful soft landing on the Moon?
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- Which lunar probe took pictures of the far side of the moon for the first time?
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- Which was the first lunar probe that landed on the Moon?
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- What do we know about the Soviet Union’s Luna Programme?
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- When did the space race begin?
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- How did Adrien Auzout prove that there was no life on the Moon?
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- Why was ‘The Great Moon Hoax’ sensational?
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- What did Karl Gilbert propose about the formation of the Moon?
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- What were the initial observations about lunar craters?
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- What do the early studies reveal about the surface of the Moon?
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- How did the invention of the telescope change the studies about the Moon and other celestial bodies?
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- Did Archimedes contribute to the study of the Moon?
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- What were the other major studies about the Moon before the invention of the telescope?
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- How are cyclones named?
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- What is lunar litter?
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- Why did the Babylonians show a special interest in studying about the Moon?
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- What are the challenges in a spacewalk?
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- How is a spacewalk performed?
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- What’s in a spacesuit?
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- What is spacewalk? And why is a spacesuit important for spacefaring astronauts?
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