Question: Recently NASA’s search craft ‘Cassini’ was destroyed by burning. This craft was sent to collect important information of which planet and its mysterious rings and the moon (satellites)?
(a) Venus
(b) Mercury
(c) Saturn
(d) Jupiter
Ans: (c)
Related facts:-
- • On September 15th, 2017, the US space agency (NASA) spacecraft Cassini was destroyed.
• NASA named it ‘Grand Finale’.
• Cassini entered the Saturn’s atmosphere with a speed of 11 lakh 30 thousand kilometers / hour and was destroyed in only a few seconds.
• This craft was sent to collect vital information of the Saturn and its mysterious rings and moons.
• The craft was sent from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 15, 1997.
• The spacecraft arrived in the Saturn system on June 30, 2004.
• The Cassini search craft has traveled 7.9 billion km in space.
• This craft discovered seven new moons (satellites) of Saturn Methone, Pallene, Polydeuseas, Daphnis, Anthe, Aegaeon and S-2009.
• Detected the sea of liquid methane upon Titan, Saturn’s largest satellite.
• In 1998, this craft passed near Venus and gathered vital information about its gravity.
• This spacecraft passed near the planet Jupiter in 2000 and took 26,000 photos of it.
Reference:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-cassini-saturn-titan-enceladus-crash-when-latest-updates-destroyed-a7948341.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/analysis-nasas-cassini-probe-must-destroyed/