Correct Answer : 15 deg
360 degrees ÷ 24 hours = 15 degrees per hour. Each time zone covers 15 degrees of longitude.
Correct Answer : 24 hours
Correct Answer : Focus
Both the Sun and the planets move around each other with their center of mass lying at the focus of the elliptical orbits.
Correct Answer : Bhaskaracharya
Bhaskaracharya was an Indian astronomer and mathematician he was born in Bijapur (Karnataka). In his treatise 'Surya Sidhanta'he Calculated the time taken by the Earth to orbit the sun upto nine decimal places.
Correct Answer : magnetopause
Correct Answer : Discovery
Sunita Williamswas launched to the International Space Station (ISS) with STS-116, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, on December 9, 2006, to join the Expedition 14 crew. Discovery is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built.
Correct Answer : Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh, Discoverer of Pluto. NASA. The search for Planet X did not resume until 1929, when the job was handed to Clyde Tombaugh, a 23-year-old Kansan who had just arrived at the Lowell Observatory.
Correct Answer : Solar Max
In fact, the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was the first satellite to be repaired in space. SMM was launched using a conventional rocket in 1980. It was retrieved by STS-13 in 1984.
Correct Answer : Titan
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury.
Correct Answer : Scott Kelly
