{"id":14932,"date":"2023-08-28T04:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T22:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14932"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:23:03","slug":"xrism-mission-and-slim-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/xrism-mission-and-slim-lander\/","title":{"rendered":"XRISM Mission and SLIM Lander"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About XRISM Mission<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (<strong>XRISM<\/strong>) is a <strong>joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)<\/strong> and the <strong>National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),<\/strong> involving <strong>contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA<\/strong>) <strong>and Canadian Space Agency <\/strong>as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: The mission aims to <strong>observe X-rays coming from deep space and to identify their wavelengths<\/strong> with unprecedented precision.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>use state-of-the-art spectroscopy to measure changes in the brightness of celestial objects at different wavelengths.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>detects X-rays with energies ranging from 400 to 12,000 electron volts<\/strong>. (For comparison, the energy of visible light is 2 to 3 electron volts.)<\/li>\n<li>This range <strong>will provide astrophysicists with new information about some of the universe&#8217;s hottest regions<\/strong>, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instruments onboard: The mission has two instruments, Resolve and Xtend.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Resolve<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is an instrument that will <strong>collect spectroscopic data with far more resolution <\/strong>than X-ray observatories orbiting the Earth do.<\/li>\n<li>Resolve<strong> must be cooled to just a fraction above absolute zero in order to measure tiny changes in temperature<\/strong> <strong>when X-rays hit<\/strong> the instrument\u2019s surface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xtend:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>will operate simultaneously to photograph the cosmos with a resolution comparable to the way our eyes might perceive it<\/strong> if we were to have X-ray vision.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>While Resolve zooms in, Xtend will zoom out<\/strong>, providing scientists with complementary views of the same X-ray sources over a larger area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>About SLIM<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SLIM, or <strong>Smart Lander for Investigating Moon<\/strong>, is a<strong> compact robotic moon lander with no astronauts aboard.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Called \u2018Moon Snipper\u2019 <\/strong>in the Japanese language, <strong>it has lightweight equipmen<\/strong>t for advanced observations and <strong>adaptable landings on resource-scarce planets,<\/strong> advancing exploration strategies.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>most important aim of the lander is to demonstrate accurate lunar landing techniques<\/strong> with a precise touchdown.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>mission plan calls for a landing no more than 328 feet (100 m) from a target inside the moon&#8217;s Shioli Crater.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are X-rays?<\/h3>\n<p>X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, just like visible light, radio waves, and microwaves. However, X-rays have much higher energy and shorter wavelengths compared to visible light. They were discovered in 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, who named them &#8220;X-rays&#8221; because of their mysterious and unknown nature at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/27\/science\/japan-space-launch-xrism-slim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Japan Scrubs Launch of X-Ray Telescope and Experimental Moon Lander<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XRISM is a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}