- Prologue
- 30-meter telescope (TMT)
- India based Neutrino Observatory (INO)
- TOPS: Terrestrial Observation and Predicting System (TOPS)
Prologue
Combining space-tech related topics from September W1 to October W3, in three part series
- IRNSS: the desi GPS
- Stuff send to space: NISAR-mission, GSLV-6, GSAT MK-3
- Stuff build on land: TMT, INO, TOPS
Apart from this lot of ball by ball commentary happened- Comet Siding spring, ESA’s Rosetta Mission, NASA’s Orion mission, Lunar Eclipse, Blood moon. But I don’t consider them much important for Mains-2014. Although I’ve noted them down, will release them later for prelim space-tech series.
Thirty meter telescope (TMT)
Topic in News: Oct W1, 2014. (As such an old topic but keeps resurfacing on Hindu every once in a while.)
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| Who? | India, Japan, US, China and Canada. |
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| Cost: | 1.5 billion$ |
India’s contribution to TMT project
- 10% finance (1000 crore rupees).
- India will develop the control system, sensors, fabrication, actuator systems of this telescope.
- Godrej and other Indian private companies will do the mirror-coating and polishing of this telescope.
- Indian astronomers will be allowed to use this telescope for the time proportional to India’s contribution (10%). Japanese will get to use it for 25% and so on.
Mock Question (GS3): Write a note on Thirty Meter Telescope and India’s contribution to this project. 200 words.
India based Neutrino Observatory (INO)
Topic in news: Sep W3, 2014
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| Where? | Bodi west hills, Theni district, South Tamilnadu |
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Location factors:
(for hardcore-geology MCQs in CDS and CAPF)
- To detect Neutrino and their reactions, the lab has to be at least 1000 m below surface, to reduce natural cosmic radiation.
- Mountains of South India, are most ideal for this lab, because they’ve dense rock (mostly gneiss) while the Himalayas are mostly metamorphic sedimentary rock with only pockets of gneiss.
- Bodi west hills is made up of Charnockite (hardest rock known.) Earthquake risk minimum.
- Hence better than hills in Karnataka, because they’ve more schistic type rocks, the rocks.
Mock Question (GS3): Write a short note on features and functions of INO Neutrino observatory.
TOPS: Terrestrial Observation and Predicting System (TOPS)
Topic in news: Sep W4, 2014
| Who? | Ramakrishna Nemani, an Indian scientist in NASA-National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
| What? | He modified NASA technology to help Indian farmers against floods, droughts, climate change and smooth implementation of crop-insurance. hence important from two angles:
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| How? | Terrestrial Observation and Predicting System (TOPS) |
What is TOPS?
TOPS system collects weather and climate data using
- satellite remote sensing
- ground weather stations
- Human inputs and
- using climatic forecasting and ecosystem models
Ya, but What is the benefit of such data?
- Helps categorizing agro-regions according to climate risk. Thus, Crop production and loss can be determine in advance.
- Both farmer and Insurance companies can make ‘business’ decisions accordingly.
- Ensures that right amount of crop insurance reaches the right farmer. (By linking computerized land records, Adhar, Jan Dhan bank account.)
Mock Question (GS3): Discuss the potential utilities of NASA-TOPS system in Indian agriculture.
16 Comments on “[Space-Tech] P3/3: Thirty Meter Telescope, India’s Neutrino Observatory, NASA-TOPS”
http://www.businessinsider.in/An-Invisible-Particle-Could-Be-The-Building-Block-For-Some-Incredible-New-Technology/articleshow/31185830.cms
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Even I remember this article!!! Copy paste
In the 1960s, a neutrino observatory located at the Kolar Gold Fields in Karnataka became one of the world’s first experiments to observe neutrinos in the Earth’s atmosphere, produced as a by-product of cosmic rays colliding with its upper strata. However, the laboratory was shut in the 1990s because the mines were being closed.
However, Japanese physicist Masatoshi Koshiba and collaborators built on this observation with a larger neutrino detector in Japan, and went on to make a discovery that (jointly) won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002. If Indian physicists had been able to keep the Kolar mines open, by now we could have been on par with Japan, which hosts the world-renowned Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory involving more than 900 engineers.
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~larson/Webpage/neutrinos.html
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Ensures that right amount of crop insurance reaches the right farmer. (By linking computerized land records, Adhar, Jan Dhan bank account.. I am not getting this point. can any1 plz explain it in detail.
@Preethi: I will tell it very short. It is about Direct Benefit Transfer(DBT). Bribes and corrupt practices can be avoided.
@preeti – in case of natural disaster strikes the land which are been affected will be estimated by the respective revenue officials and the compensation amount has to be done as soon as possible for the affected farmer.
with the development in technology like computerisation of land records we will able to find out whose land it was affected and if that person has adhar number the compensatory amount will be deposited directly to his account or jan dhan bank account . This reduces the work officials so they can concentrate on some others as well biting off the burden on the sufferer .
@preeti – in case of natural disaster strikes the land which are been affected will be estimated by the respective revenue officials and the compensation amount has to be done as soon as possible for the affected farmer.
with the development in technology like computerisation of land records we will able to find out whose land it was affected and if that person has adhar number the compensatory amount will be deposited directly to his account or jan dhan bank account . This reduces the work officials so they can concentrate on some others as well biting off the burden on the suffere .
thanks a lot for this initiative
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