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Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galapagos penguin, found north of the equator.Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have evolved into flippers.
Sep 9, 2012 – PSLV-C21 launched from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota. With a lift-off mass of 712 kg, SPOT 6 is the heaviest satellite launched by PSLV for an international customer as on Sep 2012.
The largest asteroid in the Solar System is 4 Vesta. Ceres is much more massive, but has been promoted to dwarf planet status, leaving Vesta the largest asteroid.
Mercurian Year: A year on Mercury takes 87.97 Earth days; it takes 87.97 Earth days for Mercury to orbit the sun once.
The word “helios” in Greek means “sun.” Heliocentric means that the sun is at the center. A heliocentric system is one in which the planets revolve around a fixed sun. Thus Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all revolve around the sun.
The satellite was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) on 1 July 2013 at 11:41 PM (IST). The launch was postponed from its initial launch date of 26 June 2013 due to a technical snag in the 2nd stage of the PSLV-C22 launch rocket
Hydrolysis is a chemical process of decomposition involving the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion of water while electrolysis is (chemistry) the chemical change produced by passing an electric current through a conducting solution or a molten salt.
Hydrolysis is a reaction that involves cleavage of bond or decomposition of substance using water. The water split into H+ and OH- ions and split the substrate into fragments
The Indian Antarctic Program is a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional program under the control of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. It was initiated in 1981 with the first Indian expedition to Antarctica