Daily Quiz | On lunar missions
India’s second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off onboard GSLV Mk III-M1 launch car from Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, on July 22, 2019.
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The first spacecraft to succeed in the Moon’s floor was Luna 2, launched by the Soviet Union. But which was the world’s first mission to the Moon, which the U.S. Air Force launched on a missile that blew up 16 km above the earth in 1958?
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Luna 3 was a Soviet Union Moon mission that captured and transmitted to the earth the primary picture of the Moon’s ___ ____. On January 3, 2019, the Chinese Chang’e 4 mission turned the primary to land a rover on this place. Fill within the blanks.
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On January 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 house probe. It was match with six TV cameras and was anticipated to seize and transmit a collection of close-up photos of the Moon’s floor earlier than it crashed. However, an electrical malfunction prevented it from sending any information. The incident brought about the work of which analysis physique to be known as a “disgrace”?
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There was a 14-year hole from 1976 to 1990 when there have been no missions to the Moon’s floor. On January 24, 1990, _____ turned the third nation to succeed in the floor when it intentionally crashed an orbiter as soon as its main goals had been achieved. Which nation?
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India turned the fifth nation to succeed in the Moon’s floor with its Chandrayaan 1 mission in 2008. Here, the mission orbiter deployed a ‘Moon Impact Probe’, which slammed right into a crater on the Moon, kicking up particles. Instruments on the orbiter analysed this particles and found water ice on the Moon. Name the crater.
