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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - January 2019

Jan 2019

Feb 06, 2022

India Leads in Digital Skills Readiness with 72% Actively Learning New Skills

As per a new report, India leads on digital skills readiness to acquire the key digital skills needed by business today and over the next five year index among 19 countries.
Among 19 countries, India has the Index's highest digital readiness score at 63 out of 100 (average global readiness score was 33 out of 100).
In India, 72 per cent of respondents say they are very actively learning digital skills now to prepare themselves for the future of work, according to the index prepared by leading software company Salesforce.
The Index is based on a survey of over 23,500 workers in 19 countries, with an average global readiness score of 33 out of 100.

Feb 05, 2022

NROL-87 Mission

NROL-87 was launched by SpaceX. Under the mission, the company launched a spy satellite for the US military. The satellite was carried by Falcon rocket. This is the second of the three planned launches under the mission. Much information of the NRO fleet is never leaked out. This is because these satellites are used for military purposes.
It is the first NRO mission that involved rocket landing. Rocket landing is also called vertical landing. It was launched from the Vandenberg Space Force base located in California. The NROL-87 is a US reconnaissance satellite. The Falcon rocket delivered the satellite at 512.7 km orbit. It was placed in a Sun Synchronous Orbit. It is also called helio synchronous orbit. It is a polar orbit. Here the satellite passes through the given point at the same local mean solar time.

Feb 04, 2022

One of India's most Powerful Supercomputers Installed at IISc

Param Pravega, a supercomputer that is touted to be one of the most powerful in the country, was installed at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
It has been designed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
The premiere institute had already established a supercomputing facility several years ago and in 2015, installed SahasraT which at the time was the fastest in the country.

Feb 03, 2022

WMO Declares 770-km Lightning in 2020 as Longest Single Bolt Recorded

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 769 kilometres across three US states in 2020 or equivalent to the distance between London and the German city of Hamburg was declared as the longest recorded single flash by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The record lightning struck in April 2020, across Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas in the southern US, with the exact length at 768 km, or 477.2 miles.

Trace Gas Orbiter Spots 'Tree Stump' Crater on Mars

ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spotted an ice-rich impact crater in Acidalia Planitia, a Martian plain between the Tharsis volcanic province and Arabia Terra to the north of Valles Marineris on Mars.
The 'tree stump' crater is located in the vast northern plains of Acidalia Planitia, centered at 51.9°N/326.7°E.
This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings.
Tree rings provide snapshots of Earth's past climate and, although formed in a very different way, the patterns inside this crater reveal details of the Red Planet's history, too.

Feb 02, 2022

Astronomers Identify Second Earth Trojan Asteroid: 2020 XL5

2020 XL5 will be an Earth Trojan asteroid for at least 4,000 years.
Although Trojan asteroids have been known for decades in other Solar System planets such as Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, it wasn't until 2011 that the asteroid 2010 TK7 was found to be the first Earth Trojan asteroid.
Trojans are objects sharing an orbit with a planet, clustered around one of two special gravitationally balanced areas along the orbit of the planet known as Lagrange points.

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