This Science & Technology quiz on Lunar and Mars Missions: Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
Chandrayaan 1, India's first mission to the Moon, was launched in which year?
Chandrayaan 1 was launched on 22 October 2008 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota and reached lunar orbit within a fortnight.
Read the full explanation →Which launch vehicle carried Chandrayaan 1 into orbit?
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its extended configuration carried Chandrayaan 1 on 22 October 2008. The same family of rockets, in the C25 flight, later carried the Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013, which shows how much the Indian space programme achieved with a medium lift vehicle.
Read the full explanation →The presence of water molecules on the Moon was confirmed using data from which instrument carried by Chandrayaan 1?
This imaging spectrometer, supplied by the United States space agency and flown on the Indian orbiter, measured how sunlight reflected from the lunar surface and found the absorption signature of water molecules and hydroxyl, especially towards the poles.
Read the full explanation →Chandrayaan 2 was launched in July 2019 on which rocket?
Chandrayaan 2 lifted off on 22 July 2019 on the heaviest Indian rocket then flying, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark Three, which has since been renamed LVM3.
Read the full explanation →What are the names of the lander and the rover of the Chandrayaan missions?
The lander is named Vikram after Vikram Sarabhai, the physicist who founded the Indian space programme and is called its father.
Read the full explanation →On which date did the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 make its soft landing on the Moon?
The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down safely in the high latitude region near the lunar south pole on that evening, and the rover Pragyan rolled out soon afterwards.
Read the full explanation →With the success of Chandrayaan 3, India became which country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon?
The Soviet Union was the first to place a craft gently on the lunar surface, the United States followed, and China became the third.
Read the full explanation →The landing site of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon has been named
The spot where the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down on 23 August 2023, in the high latitude region near the lunar south pole, was given this name shortly after the landing.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following did Chandrayaan 3 NOT carry?
Chandrayaan 3 was deliberately built without one, because the orbiter of Chandrayaan 2 was still healthy in lunar orbit and could relay the lander's signals to the Earth.
Read the full explanation →The Mars Orbiter Mission of India, popularly called Mangalyaan, was launched by which vehicle?
The Mars Orbiter Mission lifted off on 5 November 2013 on this flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Read the full explanation →On which date did India's Mars Orbiter Mission successfully enter the orbit of Mars?
After a journey of about ten months the spacecraft fired its engine and was captured by the gravity of Mars on that day.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT a scientific payload of India's Mars Orbiter Mission?
That instrument belonged to Chandrayaan 1, the lunar mission of 2008, and it was the one whose data confirmed water molecules on the Moon.
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