{"id":77489,"date":"2019-07-07T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=77489"},"modified":"2019-07-07T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:26:27","slug":"first-artificial-crater-on-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/first-artificial-crater-on-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"First artificial crater on Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which country recently builds the first artificial crater on the Moon?<br> (a) China<br> (b) France<br> (c) Japan<br> (d) Russia<br> Answer: (c)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating the first-ever artificial crater on an asteroid. <\/li><li>This is a step towards questing on how the solar system evolved.<\/li><li>It was announced just after the Hayabusa2 probe fired an explosive device at the Ryugu asteroid earlier this month for blasting a crater on the surface and trying to know about the origin of Life.<\/li><li>On 5 April, the Japanese probe released a 14kg device packed with plastic explosive towards the asteroid Ryugu.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Artificial crater:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Yuichi Tsuda, Hayabusa2 project manager at the Japanese space agency (JAXA), confirmed the crater from images captured by the probe located 1,700 metres (5,500 feet) from the asteroid&#8217;s surface.<\/li><li>NASA&#8217;s Deep Impact has succeeded earlier in creating an artificial crater on a comet in 2005 which was only for observation purpose.<\/li><li>The images showed crater 10 metres in diameter.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One of the first:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Japanese space agency scientists had predicted that the crater could be of 10 metres in diameter if the surface was sandy or three metres if the surface was rocky.<\/li><li>The surface was filled with boulders and yet a big crater was created. This could mean there&#8217;s a scientific mechanism unknown till now or something special about Ryugu&#8217;s materials.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dragon Palace:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The aim of this crater on Ryugu is to throw up &#8220;fresh&#8221; material from under the asteroid&#8217;s surface which will give information about the early stages of the solar system.<\/li><li>The asteroid is speculated of having relatively large amounts of organic matter and water from some 4.6 billion years ago, the time this solar system was born.<\/li><li>Ryugu means &#8220;Dragon Palace&#8221; in Japanese and refers to a castle at the bottom of the ocean in an ancient Japanese tale.<\/li><li>The photo show the asteroid has a surface which is rough and full of boulders.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-48065282\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-48065282<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-japan-artificial-crater-asteroid.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-japan-artificial-crater-asteroid.html<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/world-news\/japan-creates-first-artificial-crater-on-asteroid\/dragon-palace\/slideshow\/69056397.cms\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/world-news\/japan-creates-first-artificial-crater-on-asteroid\/dragon-palace\/slideshow\/69056397.cms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which country recently builds the first artificial crater on the Moon? (a) China (b) France (c) Japan (d) Russia Answer: (c) Related facts: Japanese scientists have succeeded in creating the first-ever artificial crater on an asteroid. This is a step towards questing on how the solar system evolved. 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