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Now ‘Chandrayaan’ is in Rock City

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Amazing: B.R. Guruprasad, Public Relation Officer, ISRO, Bangalore, explaining the model of GSLV to students in Tiruchi.

TIRUCHI: Final year post-graduate students of Physics in and around Tiruchi city will immensely benefit through the near month-long exhibition inaugurated at the Anna Science Centre - Planetarium here on Monday.

The exhibition, organised jointly by the Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore; Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore; Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre, Chennai and the Planetarium, has a wide range of three launch vehicles and five satellites besides 44 self-explanatory panels giving minute details on various interesting topics on space and space research. The salient future of the exhibition is a couple of models on ‘Chandrayaan - I’, our country’s giant leap to moon.

“The exhibition aims at inspiring PG students of Physics to astronomy and inspire them towards the interesting information about space. The models give a clear idea about the functioning of the satellite, various in-built components and their scientific applications,” says the B.R. Guruprasad, PRO, ISRO, Bangalore, .

For instance, the model of Chandrayaan - I contains a Rocket engine; moon-impact probe; mini synthetic aperture; cameras and spectrometers. Another model of the INSAT-4B gives out the details about the solar panels; antennas and sensors, he says.

The Professor from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, S. Chatterjee, said that exhibition was organised as part of observance the ‘International Year of Astronomy’ this year, marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s historic gaze into the night sky using a telescope.

The Executive Director, Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Centre, P. Iyamperumal, said that the exhibition would be open till July 31. The panels included topics including the ‘Achievements of ISRO’; ‘How does a satellite orbit the earth?’; ‘What is space?’; ’Indian satellites’. The students would benefit in a big way.

A two-day workshop on ‘Understanding the Universe from Earth to Galaxy: an astrophysical journey’ was also organised as part of inauguration of the exhibition. The Project Director (in-charge), Anna Science Centre - Planetarium, T.M. Alagiri Swamy Raju, said that observational activities with the Sun and lecture series and panel discussions would form part of the workshop.

K. Sundararaman from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Indian Institute of Astrophysics explained the objective of the workshop.

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