1) Which of the following statements is/are correct about Maharana Pratap?
1. He died during Battle of Haldighati.
2. Haldighati mountain pass is situated in the Aravalli hills in Rajasthan.
a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None
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ANSWER: Only 2
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- Maharana Pratap lost the Battle of Haldighati but made come back after sometime.
- From 1585, Akbar shifted his base to Lahore that resulted in recovering of many of his lost territories including Kumbhalgarh and the areas around Chittor (but not Chittor itself) by Maharana Pratap.
- He died of injuries sustained in a hunting accident at Chavand in 1597.
- The year 2015 marks 475 th birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap.
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2) According to Agriculture Census the average size of holding has been estimated at-
a. 3 hectares
b. 1.50 hectares
c. 1.15 hectares
d. 1 hectares
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ANSWER: 1.15 hectares
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According to Agriculture Census:
- Total number of operational holdings were estimated as 138.35 million.
- The total operated area was 159.59 million hectare.
- The average size of the holding has been estimated as 1.15 hectare.
- The average size of holdings has shown a steady declining trend over various Agriculture Censuses since, 1970-71.
- The nine States: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and West Bengal together account for about 78 percent of the Gross Cropped Area in the country.
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3) Which is nodal agency for reception, archival, processing and dissemination of remote sensing data in the country?
a. ISRO
b. National Remote Sensing Centre
c. Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
d. DRDO
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ANSWER: National Remote Sensing Centre
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- National Remote Sensing Centre HQ- Hyderabad
- It is a key player in Earth Observation Programme and Disaster Management Support programme.
- NRSC acquires and processes data from all Indian remote sensing satellites like Cartosat-1, Cartosat-2, Resourcesat-1, Oceansat-1 and Technology Experiment Satellite as well as foreign satellites like Terra, NOAA and ERS.
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4) Which of the following statements is/are correct about GSLV?
1. It has higher capability to lift greater loads into space as compared to PSLV.
2. GSLV has four stages.
a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None
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ANSWER: Only 1
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- PSLV is Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, designed mainly to deliver the “earth-observation” or “remote-sensing” satellites with lift-off mass of up to about 1750 Kg to Sun-Synchronous circular polar orbits of 600-900 Km altitude.
- GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) is designed mainly to deliver the communication-satellites to the highly elliptical (typically 250 x 36000 Km) Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
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5) What is the purpose of NISAR?
a. Measure the changes of earth's ocean and ocean currents
b. Measure the changes on earth’s land surface, ice surface, glaciers, earthquakes and volcanoes
c. Study the consequences of climate change on Earth's atmosphere
d. Study changes in pattern of agricultural land
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ANSWER: Measure the changes on earth’s land surface, ice surface, glaciers, earthquakes and volcanoes
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- NISAR : Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission.
- It is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite.
- The satellite will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequency (L band & S band) and it is planned to be used for remote sensing to observe and understand natural processes of the Earth.
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6) Which of the following statements is/are correct about Herschel Space Observatory?
1. It is jointly operated by ESA and NASA.
2. Helium is required to cool the instruments on Herschele space telescope.
a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both
d. None
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ANSWER: Both
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- The Herschele telescope's lifespan was governed by the amount of coolant available for its instruments Which in this case is Helium.
- When that coolant ran out, the instruments would stop functioning correctly.
- It continued to operate until 29 April 2013.
- Herschel was instrumental in the discovery of an unknown and unexpected step in the star forming process.
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7) SPICA is a infrared space telescope of -
a. ESA
b. NASA
c. JAXA
d. ISRO
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ANSWER: JAXA
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- The Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), initially called HII/L2 after the launch vehicle and orbit.
- It is a proposed infrared space telescope, follow-on to the successful AKARI spacecraft.
- It is planned to be launched in 2025.
- Its mission will be the study of star and planetary formation.
- It will be able to detect stellar nurseries in galaxies, protoplanetary discs around young stars, and exoplanets, helped by its own coronograph for the latter two types of objects.
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