{"id":31357,"date":"2017-09-25T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=31357"},"modified":"2017-09-25T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:00:17","slug":"nasas-search-craft-cassini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/nasas-search-craft-cassini\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s search Craft &#8216;Cassini&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: Recently NASA&#8217;s search craft &#8216;Cassini&#8217; was destroyed by burning. This craft was sent to collect important information of which planet and its mysterious rings and the moon (satellites)?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Venus<br \/>\n(b) Mercury<br \/>\n(c) Saturn<br \/>\n(d) Jupiter<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<br \/>\nRelated facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022 On September 15th, 2017, the US space agency (NASA) spacecraft Cassini was destroyed.<br \/>\n\u2022 NASA named it &#8216;Grand Finale&#8217;.<br \/>\n\u2022 Cassini entered the Saturn&#8217;s atmosphere with a speed of 11 lakh 30 thousand kilometers \/ hour and was destroyed in only a few seconds.<br \/>\n\u2022 This craft was sent to collect vital information of the Saturn and its mysterious rings and moons.<br \/>\n\u2022 The craft was sent from the NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 15, 1997.<br \/>\n\u2022 The spacecraft arrived in the Saturn system on June 30, 2004.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Cassini search craft has traveled 7.9 billion km in space.<br \/>\n\u2022 This craft discovered seven new moons (satellites) of Saturn Methone, Pallene, Polydeuseas, Daphnis, Anthe, Aegaeon and S-2009.<br \/>\n\u2022 Detected the sea of liquid methane upon Titan, Saturn&#8217;s largest satellite.<br \/>\n\u2022 In 1998, this craft passed near Venus and gathered vital information about its gravity.<br \/>\n\u2022 This spacecraft passed near the planet Jupiter in 2000 and took 26,000 photos of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/nasa-cassini-saturn-titan-enceladus-crash-when-latest-updates-destroyed-a7948341.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/nasa-cassini-saturn-titan-enceladus-crash-when-latest-updates-destroyed-a7948341.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/analysis-nasas-cassini-probe-must-destroyed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/analysis-nasas-cassini-probe-must-destroyed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently NASA&#8217;s search craft &#8216;Cassini&#8217; 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:- \u2022 On September 15th, 2017, the US space agency (NASA) spacecraft Cassini was destroyed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[3123],"class_list":["post-31357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}