{"id":4693,"date":"2023-01-17T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:52:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:22:25","slug":"what-is-shukrayaan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-shukrayaan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"What is   SHUKRAYAAN-1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About SHUKRAYAAN-1?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also called the Venus Mission.<\/li>\n<li>The Shukrayaan I mission will be an <strong>orbiter mission.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its scientific payloads currently include a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar and a ground-penetrating radar.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The mission is expected to study Venus\u2019s <strong>geological and volcanic activity<\/strong>, emissions on the ground, wind speed, cloud cover, and other planetary characteristics from an elliptical orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Optimal launch windows from Earth to Venus occur once <strong>every 19 months.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key facts about Venus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Venus is often called &#8220;Earth\u2019s twin&#8221; because they\u2019re similar in size and structure, but Venus has extreme surface heat and a dense, toxic atmosphere.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>rotates very slowly<\/strong> on its axis \u2013 one day on Venus lasts 243 Earth days.<\/li>\n<li>The thick atmosphere of Venus traps heat creating a runaway greenhouse effect \u2013 making it the <strong>hottest planet<\/strong> in our solar system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phosphine<\/strong>, a possible indicator of microbial life, has been observed in the clouds of Venus.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike the other planets in our solar system, Venus spins clockwise on its axis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Venera programme?<\/h3>\n<p>It was the programme of the Soviet Union under which a series of space probes developed between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<u>ISRO pushing Venus&#8217;s mission \u2018Shukrayaan\u2019 to 2031?<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shukrayaan I mission will be an orbiter mission. Its scientific payloads currently include a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar and a ground-penetrating radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4693","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\/4693","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=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}